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"Something is Rotten in the State of"--Louisiana. "So say we all of us."

Artist Thomas Nast (American ; 1840-1902)
Maker/Publisher Harper's Weekly
DateFebruary 21, 1874
Mediumwood engraving on newsprint
Dimensionsimage: 4 13/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.3 x 12.1 cm)
sheet: 15 13/16 x 11 in. (40.2 x 27.9 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PRINTS
Credit LineGift of Irwin and Dianne Steinberg
Terms
  • political cartoon
  • male figures
  • smell
  • constitutions
  • Louisiana
  • law
  • Reconstruction period
Object number99.1.246
Descriptionfrom "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (written ca. 1601)
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