Item #13665 Twenty-two original wood blocks created for Harper's periodicals. Thomas Nast.
Twenty-two original wood blocks created for Harper's periodicals.
Twenty-two original wood blocks created for Harper's periodicals.
Twenty-two original wood blocks created for Harper's periodicals.
Twenty-two original wood blocks created for Harper's periodicals.
Twenty-two original wood blocks created for Harper's periodicals.

Twenty-two original wood blocks created for Harper's periodicals.

NY: Harper's, 1860s. The blocks range in size from 1 1/2 x 1/2 to 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches, with most in the middle. The subject matter is largely anti-Irish Catholics. There is a printed proof for each wood block. Very good to fine condition. Item #13665

Nast's practice was to draw directly unto the block for Harper's engravers. Two of the blocks are grooved to be linked to other blocks. Many are stamped with the blockmaker's name, Wenner & Co. in Philadelphia.
Nast, the "father of political cartoons," opposed slavery & racism, and religion in public schools. He depicted the Irish as symbols of mobs & machine politics, who followed an "authoritarian papacy" and who exploited immigrants.

Price: $4,000.00

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