1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22

1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22

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1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
  • 1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22
1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22

1877 Osman Pasha Plevna, Masquerade Ball, Nast, Victor Hugo — Dec 22

$39.63
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · December 22, 1877 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A rich Christmas-week issue capturing a pivotal historical moment — a portrait of Osman Pasha, the just-surrendered hero of Plevna, two Thomas Nast political cartoons, a farewell reception for the newly appointed American Minister to Great Britain, a Victor Hugo vignette, and a supplement dominated by an elaborate masquerade ball centerfold and Victorian literary illustration. Strong content for collectors of Ottoman history, Gilded Age political art, and Victorian decorative illustration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🪖 OSMAN PASHA — HERO OF PLEVNA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏅 ONE-THIRD PAGE PORTRAIT — "OSMAN PASHA" A portrait of Osman Nuri Pasha — the Ottoman field marshal whose five-month defense of Plevna (modern Pleven, Bulgaria) against a vastly superior Russo-Romanian force became one of the most celebrated military feats of the 19th century. Published just twelve days after his surrender on December 10, 1877, this portrait captures the man at the moment of his greatest fame: though defeated, Osman Pasha was lionized across Europe and even by his Russian adversaries. Tsar Alexander II personally visited him in captivity, returned his sword as a mark of esteem, and called the defense of Plevna one of the most remarkable military achievements he had witnessed. Osman's 145-day siege had inflicted over 30,000 casualties on the allied forces, delayed the Russian advance on Constantinople by months, and transformed him into a national hero in the Ottoman Empire. He was later appointed War Minister four times and Marshal of the Palace by Sultan Abdul Hamid II. A significant and timely piece of Russo-Turkish War history. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ THOMAS NAST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✏️ FULL FRONT PAGE — THOMAS NAST: "MORE PACIFICATION" A Thomas Nast front-page cartoon — pointed year-end political commentary on the Hayes administration's Reconstruction-era policies and their consequences. ✏️ FULL PAGE — THOMAS NAST: "AN OPEN QUESTION STILL" A second full-page Nast cartoon — two Nast illustrations in one Christmas-week issue, a strong double dose of Gilded Age political art. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎭 HALF PAGE — "FAREWELL RECEPTION TO MINISTER WELSH AT THE PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS" A half-page illustration of the farewell reception held for John Welsh at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts — the grand send-off for the newly appointed United States Minister to the Court of St. James's. Welsh was one of Philadelphia's most distinguished citizens: a leading merchant, chairman of the board of finance for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, and a major benefactor of the University of Pennsylvania. Hayes had appointed him Minister to Great Britain on October 30, 1877, and — in a remarkable coincidence of timing — Welsh presented his credentials in London on the very day this issue was published, December 22, 1877. The reception at the Academy of Fine Arts was Philadelphia's civic farewell to one of its own. 📚 QUARTER PAGE — "VICTOR HUGO IN AUGUSTE'S WINE SHOP" A quarter-page illustration depicting Victor Hugo — the great French novelist and poet, author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame — in a Paris wine shop. A charming piece of Victorian literary celebrity culture. 👻 TWO-THIRDS DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "AN OLD-FASHIONED GHOST STORY" A two-thirds double-page centerfold of a ghost story illustration — a dark and atmospheric Victorian supernatural scene, a Christmas ghost story tradition in the best Victorian manner. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎭 THE SUPPLEMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎭 TWO-THIRDS DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "THE MASQUERADE BALL — THE GRAND PROCESSION" The supplement showpiece — a two-thirds double-page centerfold of an elaborate masquerade ball, with costumed figures in a grand procession. A lavishly detailed and very frameable piece of Victorian decorative and social history. 👻 FULL PAGE — "THE GIRLS SAW THE RIGHT HAND OF THE PORTRAIT MOVE OUT OF THE CANVAS" A full-page supernatural literary illustration — a dramatic scene of a portrait coming to life, in the finest Victorian Gothic tradition. A vivid and atmospheric piece of Victorian horror illustration. 🎭 TWO-THIRDS PAGE — "SIR ANTHONY STOOD FROWNING AND PURSING UP HIS LIPS" A two-thirds page literary illustration — a character scene of Sir Anthony in a moment of stern displeasure, rendered with Victorian narrative detail. 🌸 TWO-THIRDS PAGE — "AIRY FAIRY LILIAN" A two-thirds page illustration — a delicate and ethereal Victorian figure study, likely illustrating a poem or story. 💑 TWO-THIRDS PAGE — "MILDRED AND EDGAR AMMERDOWN" A two-thirds page romantic or narrative illustration featuring the characters Mildred and Edgar Ammerdown — a Victorian literary or serial fiction scene. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 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 22, 1877 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 174202 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 centerfold and supplement • Fully tracked for your peace of mind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Osman Pasha portrait 1877, Osman Pasha Plevna hero, Gazi Osman Pasha, Siege of Plevna Ottoman, Plevna surrender 1877, Ottoman hero Plevna, Russo-Turkish War Ottoman general, Plevna Bulgaria 1877, Ottoman field marshal portrait, Thomas Nast More Pacification, Nast Open Question Still, Nast political cartoon 1877, Nast double 1877, Hayes era Nast cartoon, Minister Welsh Philadelphia farewell, John Welsh minister England, Welsh Academy Fine Arts reception, Philadelphia diplomatic history, 1876 Centennial Exhibition Welsh, Victor Hugo wine shop, Victor Hugo Victorian print, French literary celebrity, masquerade ball Victorian, grand masquerade procession, Victorian masquerade ball print, Gilded Age costume ball, portrait right hand canvas, Victorian ghost story illustration, Victorian Gothic supernatural, Airy Fairy Lilian Victorian, Victorian literary illustration, Harper's Weekly 1877, antique newspaper 1877, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Ottoman history collector, Nast collector, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera

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