The Herald of relief from America / Th. Nast. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique engraving captures The Herald of relief from America / Th. Nast. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Herald of relief from America / Th. Nast.
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Thomas Nast's wood engraving, published in *Harper's Weekly* on February 28, 1880, casts America as the bearer of good news to a distressed Ireland. The poor harvests of 1879 had left many Irish families short of food, and relief committees in the United States raised money and sent supplies across the Atlantic that winter. Nast, the magazine's best-known cartoonist, used the weekly's wide readership to turn that charity into a moral statement about national generosity. The image is a useful record of how American newspapers and illustrators framed transatlantic aid during the 1880 crisis.
| Created / published | 1880 February 28. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1880.Wood engravings 1880. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1880 Feb. 28, p. 129. |
| Subjects | Famines--Ireland--1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,264 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-180043 |
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