1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17

1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17

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1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
  • 1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17
1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17

1877 Disputed Election Commission, Nast Cartoon, Friesland Skate — Feb 17

$65.43
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · February 17, 1877 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A historically electrifying issue published at the precise climax of the most disputed presidential election in American history — the Hayes-Tilden contest of 1876. The Electoral Commission is shown in full session in the double-page centerfold, the electoral vote count is illustrated in a full page, and Thomas Nast weighs in with two cartoons — all while the supplement delivers a magnificent Dutch genre masterpiece engraved especially for Harper's Weekly. A premier issue for collectors of American political history and Victorian art. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗳️ THE 1876 DISPUTED ELECTION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This issue was published during one of the most dramatic weeks in American political history. The Hayes-Tilden presidential election of 1876 had produced no clear winner — Samuel Tilden had won the popular vote but both parties claimed victory in three Southern states. Congress established a special Electoral Commission to resolve the dispute, and its deliberations were consuming the nation when this issue went to press. The Compromise of 1877 that ultimately gave Hayes the presidency in exchange for ending Reconstruction was just weeks away. 🏛️ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION IN SESSION" The great visual document of the crisis — the Electoral Commission shown in full session, the fifteen commissioners deliberating the fate of the presidency across the full double-page breadth of Harper's Weekly. A primary document of one of the most consequential political moments in American history. 📊 FULL PAGE — "COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VOTE" A full-page illustration of the electoral vote count — the tense, dramatic process at the heart of the constitutional crisis. Published as the count was actually underway. 👤 FULL PAGE — PORTRAITS OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION A full page of portraits of the fifteen Electoral Commission members — the judges, senators, and representatives who held the presidency in their hands. A significant piece of American constitutional history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ THOMAS NAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Two Thomas Nast political cartoons in this issue — front page and interior — commenting on the electoral crisis with his characteristic sharp wit. Nast was at the height of his powers and deeply engaged with the disputed election. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛷 ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛷 FULL PAGE — CHILDREN SLEIGH RIDING A charming full-page illustration of children sledding — a lively and warmly rendered winter genre scene, a pleasing counterpoint to the heavy political content of the issue. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 THE SUPPLEMENT — CHRISTOFFEL BISCHOP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ DOUBLE-PAGE — "GRINDING A SKATE IN FRIESLAND" by Christoffel Bischop The artistic showpiece of the issue — a magnificent double-page engraving after the painting by Christoffel Bischop, engraved for Harper's Weekly by William Biscombe Gardner. A richly detailed Dutch interior scene: a skate grinder at work in a cozy Frisian workshop, figures in traditional dress, warm architectural detail suffusing the scene with the quiet, intimate quality of the finest Dutch genre painting tradition. Bischop was a celebrated Dutch painter working in the tradition of Vermeer and de Hooch, and this engraving brought his meticulous, luminous work to the American audience in the finest reproductive tradition of Harper's Weekly. A spectacular and highly frameable piece. 🧊 FULL PAGE — "A PARTY IN SIGHT OF THE ARCTIC ICEBERGS" A striking full-page Arctic scene — figures in a small boat navigating between dramatic ice formations — a vivid piece of Victorian polar exploration illustration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 CONDITION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. 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