{"product_id":"1877-trout-fishing-shipwreck-rescue-nast-russia-turkey-war-views-may-19","title":"1877 Trout Fishing, Shipwreck Rescue, Nast, Russia-Turkey War Views — May 19","description":"🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · May 19, 1877\nComplete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nA richly varied issue combining American leisure, maritime drama, classical antiquities, and Japanese scenery — with a supplement delivering a nine-panel panorama of the Russo-Turkish War zone and a dramatic full-page illustration of the Russian army. A strong issue for collectors of Victorian sporting art, naval history, and Ottoman-era military history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n✏️ FULL FRONT PAGE — THOMAS NAST POLITICAL CARTOON\nA Thomas Nast political cartoon leading the full front page — Nast at the height of his powers during the turbulent post-election year of 1877.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🚢 FULL PAGE — \"TO THE RESCUE\"\nA full-page illustration of men at the scene of a shipwreck — a dramatic maritime rescue scene with the energy and urgency characteristic of the finest Harper's Weekly disaster illustration.\n\n🏺 FULL PAGE — \"ANTIQUITIES\"\nA full-page illustration of antiquities — a document of the Victorian era's intense fascination with classical archaeology, published at a time when major excavations were transforming the world's understanding of ancient civilizations.\n\n🌉 ONE-THIRD PAGE — \"IWAKUNI BRIDGE, JAPAN\"\nA one-third page scene of the famous Kintai Bridge at Iwakuni, Japan — one of the most celebrated wooden arch bridges in Japanese history, built in 1673 and rebuilt repeatedly to its original design. Published during the early Meiji era when Japan was opening to Western eyes, this is a lovely piece of Victorian Japanese travel illustration.\n\n🎣 HALF PAGE — \"TROUT FISHING\"\nA half-page trout fishing illustration — the quintessential American sporting scene, capturing the Gilded Age's deep love of freshwater fishing and the tranquil pleasures of stream and river.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n⚔️ THE SUPPLEMENT — RUSSO-TURKISH WAR\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n🪖 FULL PAGE — \"THE RUSSIAN ARMY\"\nA large, densely composed full-page illustration of Russian military forces — a powerful visual document of the army then fighting the Ottoman Empire in one of the defining conflicts of the era.\n\n🗺️ NINE-PANEL PAGE — \"SKETCHES IN RUSSIA AND TURKEY\"\nA spectacular nine-panel supplement page of landscape and city views from the war zone, including:\n· Prinkipo Island, near Stamboul\n· Arsenal Point, Constantinople\n· The City of Bucharest, as it is now\n· The Pass of Shipka, on the Balkans\n· Dockyard, Sevastopol\n· Fortress of Alexandropol, near Kars, Russia\n· Fortress of Alashgerd, near Batoum, Black Sea\n\nA remarkable visual dispatch from the front — key strategic locations of the Russo-Turkish War documented in careful detail for American readers. The Pass of Shipka in particular was the site of one of the war's most decisive battles. A significant piece of Victorian military geography and Eastern European history.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📋 CONDITION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nI 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.\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📌 DETAILS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\nPublication ········ Harper's Weekly\nDate ··············· May 19, 1877\nCity ··············· New York\nItem Number ········ 174140\nPages ·············· Complete Issue + Supplement\nFormat ············· Illustrated folio newspaper\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n📦 SHIPPING \u0026amp; PRESERVATION\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\n• Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 148-year-old newsprint\n• Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the supplement pages\n• Fully tracked for your peace of mind\n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n🔍 SEO TAGS\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n\ntrout fishing Victorian print, Victorian fly fishing illustration, Gilded Age fishing scene, freshwater fishing antique, American sporting art, Victorian sport fishing, shipwreck rescue Victorian, maritime rescue illustration, Victorian shipwreck scene, Iwakuni Bridge Japan, Kintai Bridge Japan Victorian, Meiji Japan illustration, Japanese bridge Victorian, Japan Victorian engraving, classical antiquities Victorian, archaeology Victorian print, Thomas Nast political cartoon, Nast 1877 front page, Russian army illustration, Russo-Turkish War supplement, Sketches Russia Turkey, Constantinople Arsenal Point, Bucharest Victorian view, Shipka Pass Balkans, Sevastopol dockyard, Kars Russia fortress, Batoum Black Sea Victorian, Ottoman war zone views, Russo-Turkish War 1877, Harper's Weekly 1877, antique newspaper 1877, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, fishing art antique, Japan Victorian print, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera, Victorian military geography","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52264026243292,"sku":null,"price":54.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/4759\/9580\/files\/d31001bb-il_fullxfull.8161777635_n8k9.jpg?v=1786496766","url":"https:\/\/thekeenantiquarian.com\/products\/1877-trout-fishing-shipwreck-rescue-nast-russia-turkey-war-views-may-19","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}