1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27

1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27

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1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
  • 1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27
1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27

1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt Burial, Nast Cartoon, Grandfather's Fete — Jan 27

$36.93
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · January 27, 1877 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A visually rich issue marking the death of America's wealthiest man, with a Thomas Nast front page, a stranded ocean steamship, winter sketches, and a supplement featuring two spectacular theatrical and genre illustrations — including a magnificent double-page French celebration scene after a painting by Louis Leloir. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ FULL FRONT PAGE — THOMAS NAST POLITICAL CARTOON A Thomas Nast political cartoon leading the full front page — published in the tense weeks of the Hayes-Tilden electoral crisis, Nast's pointed Gilded Age commentary at full force. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 CORNELIUS VANDERBILT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚰️ HALF PAGE — "BURIAL OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT" A half-page illustration documenting the burial of Cornelius Vanderbilt — the Commodore, founder of the Vanderbilt dynasty and at the time of his death the wealthiest man in America, with a fortune estimated at $100 million. Vanderbilt died on January 4, 1877 and his funeral was one of the great spectacles of the Gilded Age. This illustration is a primary document of the passing of the man who built the New York Central Railroad and defined American industrial capitalism. A significant piece of Gilded Age business and social history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚢 INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⛵ FULL PAGE — "THE STRANDED STEAMSHIP 'L'AMÉRIQUE'" A full-page illustration of the French ocean liner L'Amérique run aground — a dramatic maritime disaster scene capturing the stricken vessel on the rocks, a significant piece of Victorian maritime history. ❄️ FULL PAGE — "WINTER SKETCHES" A full-page spread of winter genre scenes — the kind of atmospheric seasonal illustration that made Harper's Weekly the finest visual record of American life in the Gilded Age. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎭 THE SUPPLEMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎭 FULL PAGE — "PAINTING MASKS FOR A PANTOMIME" A wonderfully detailed full-page illustration of a mask-maker's workshop — figures at work painting theatrical masks, shelves crowded with masks in various states of completion behind them. A charming and unusual piece of Victorian theatrical craft and backstage life, richly detailed and very frameable. 🕺 FULL PAGE — "LISTENING FOR THE POSTMAN" A striking atmospheric full-page supplement illustration — a solitary figure in heavy winter clothing, contemplative and still, in a mood of quiet anticipation. A beautifully composed and evocative Victorian genre scene. 🥂 DOUBLE-PAGE — "LA FÊTE DU GRAND-PÈRE" (from a painting by M. Louis Leloir) The artistic showpiece of the supplement — a magnificent double-page engraving after the celebrated French academic painting by Louis Leloir, depicting two scenes of a festive Grandfather's Day celebration. Elegantly costumed figures in richly detailed historical interior settings, rendered with the warmth and precision of the finest French genre painting tradition. Leloir was a celebrated painter of French historical and costume subjects, and this engraving captures his meticulous attention to period dress and domestic ceremony. A beautiful and very frameable piece of Victorian French academic art. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 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 ··············· January 27, 1877 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 174108 Pages ·············· Complete Issue + Supplement Format ············· Illustrated folio newspaper ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 148-year-old newsprint • Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the supplement pages • Fully tracked for your peace of mind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Cornelius Vanderbilt burial, Vanderbilt death 1877, Commodore Vanderbilt funeral, Vanderbilt Gilded Age, New York Central Railroad, Vanderbilt antique print, Gilded Age tycoon history, Thomas Nast political cartoon, Nast 1877 front page, Gilded Age political cartoon, L'Amerique stranded steamship, French ocean liner wreck, Victorian maritime disaster, steamship aground Victorian, La Fete du Grand-Pere, Louis Leloir painting, French academic painting Victorian, Leloir historical costume, grandfather celebration French, Victorian French genre art, painting masks pantomime, Victorian theatrical masks, pantomime workshop Victorian, mask maker Victorian, backstage Victorian theater, listening for postman Victorian, Victorian solitary figure, winter sketches Victorian, Gilded Age winter scene, Harper's Weekly 1877, antique newspaper 1877, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Vanderbilt history collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera, French painting engraving antique, Victorian genre scene framing

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