Colored rule in a reconstructed(?) state / Th. Nast. – Historic Print
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Colored rule in a reconstructed(?) state / Th. Nast. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Colored rule in a reconstructed(?) state / Th. Nast.
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Nast's wood engraving takes aim at the Black legislators who sat in South Carolina's statehouse during Reconstruction, and the question mark in the title signals his doubt that such governments were legitimate. It ran in *Harper's Weekly* on March 14, 1874, one of the most widely read illustrated magazines of the period, where Nast's political cartoons helped shape northern opinion. The drawing's caricatured figures show how white Republican-era critics used ridicule to undercut Black political participation, a theme that runs through much of the magazine's coverage of the South in the 1870s.
| Created / published | published 1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Editorial cartoons 1870-1880.Wood engravings 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1874 March 14, p. 229. |
| Subjects | Legislators--South Carolina--1870-1880. African Americans--Political activity--South Carolina--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,289 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179121 |
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