Civil Service Reform

Thomas Nast, American (born Germany), 1840 - 1902

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about 1885

Graphite, pen and black ink on paper

Overall: 11 1/8 × 11 in. (28.3 × 27.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

D.974.57

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, lower left: Th. Nast; verso, inscribed: Naturally enough Republican mugwump to Democratic mugwump / you see, its no use, its uphill work

Exhibition History

The Political Pen of Thomas Nast, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, January 23-March 14, 1999.

Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 30-September 21, 1975.

Publication History

Franklin W. Robinson, [et al.], Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover, N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1975, pp. 19-22.

Provenance

Source unknown; catalogued, 1974.

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