Civil Service Reform
Thomas Nast, American (born Germany), 1840 - 1902
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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