1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5

1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5

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1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
  • 1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5
1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5

1874 Nast on Grant, Nero Centerfold, Arctic Discovery, Hogarth — Dec 5

$36.36
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · December 5, 1874 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A rich late-year issue with two Thomas Nast cartoons targeting President Grant, a magnificent Nero centerfold from a celebrated Victorian painting, twelve Arctic exploration scenes, and a supplement featuring Hogarth's house and a deeply moving Widow's Thanksgiving scene. Strong content for collectors of Gilded Age political history, Victorian art, and Arctic exploration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE & NAST CARTOONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ FULL FRONT PAGE — THOMAS NAST: "NOW GNAW AWAY" A Thomas Nast political cartoon leading the full front page — a pointed and aggressive Gilded Age commentary, the title suggesting a predatory political image in Nast's sharpest mode. 🏛️ FULL PAGE — THOMAS NAST: "UPON WHAT MEAT DOTH THIS OUR CAESAR FEED THAT HE HATH GROWN SO GREAT?" A second full Nast cartoon — a direct attack on President Ulysses S. Grant, drawing on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to question the sources of Grant's political power and appetite. One of Nast's more literary and biting anti-Grant cartoons of the period, published as the Grant administration was mired in scandal and the Reconstruction consensus was fracturing. Two Nast cartoons targeting Grant in a single issue is notable. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 THE CENTERFOLD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛️ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "NERO AMONG THE RUINS OF ROME" The visual showpiece of the issue — a magnificent double-page engraving after the celebrated painting by Karl Piloty, engraved by Murua. A dramatically composed historical scene of the Emperor Nero surveying the smoldering ruins of Rome, classical figures in powerful poses throughout. Karl Piloty was one of the leading historical painters of the German academic tradition, and this engraving brings his grand theatrical vision to the full double-page breadth of Harper's Weekly. A spectacular and very frameable piece of Victorian historical art. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧊 ARCTIC DISCOVERY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧭 TWELVE SCENES — "ARCTIC DISCOVERY" A page of twelve illustrations covering Arctic exploration — six scenes of the explorers themselves and six additional Arctic scenes. Published at the height of the Victorian fascination with Arctic exploration, as expeditions continued to probe the Northwest Passage and the far north captured the popular imagination. A significant piece of polar exploration history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📰 THE SUPPLEMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 FULL PAGE — "HOGARTH'S HOUSE AT CHISWICK, ENGLAND" A multi-panel supplement illustration documenting William Hogarth's famous house at Chiswick — showing the exterior from the road, the pump house, and the grave of Hogarth's dog. Hogarth, the great 18th-century English satirical artist and social commentator, was a Victorian cultural hero, and this affectionate illustrated tribute to his home is a lovely piece of English art history. 🍂 FULL PAGE — "THE WIDOW'S THANKSGIVING" A beautifully rendered and deeply sentimental full-page supplement illustration of a widow and her children gathered at a modest Thanksgiving table — warmly lit, quietly moving, and characteristic of the finest Victorian domestic genre illustration. A powerful contrast to the political and historical content of the main issue. The supplement also includes literary content including "The Wrong Thanksgiving" article and a continuation of Miss Braddon's "A Strange World." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 CONDITION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 DETAILS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Publication ········ Harper's Weekly Date ··············· December 5, 1874 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 173884 Pages ·············· Complete · 16 pages + Supplement Format ············· Illustrated folio newspaper ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 151-year-old newsprint • Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold and supplement • Fully tracked for your peace of mind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Thomas Nast Grant cartoon, Nast Caesar Grant, Nast Upon What Meat Caesar, Ulysses Grant political cartoon, Grant administration scandal, Gilded Age corruption cartoon, Nast anti-Grant 1874, Nero ruins Rome centerfold, Karl Piloty Nero painting, Nero Rome Victorian engraving, Roman history Victorian print, Karl Piloty German painter, historical painting engraving, Victorian classical art print, Arctic discovery 1874, Arctic exploration Victorian, polar exploration print, Northwest Passage Victorian, Arctic explorers illustration, Hogarth house Chiswick, William Hogarth home England, Hogarth English art history, Victorian Chiswick engraving, Hogarth satirist English art, widow Thanksgiving Victorian, Victorian Thanksgiving scene, sentimental Victorian domestic, widow children Victorian print, Thomas Nast political cartoon, Harper's Weekly 1874, antique newspaper 1874, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Grant era history, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera, Roman emperor Victorian art, Arctic history antique print

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