"It Leads Us To A Challenge." "It was Indeed a Wild and Reckless Sacrifice of Blood and Money to Save One's Country to be Ruled over by one so Ungrateful!" Artist: Thomas Nast (American, 1840–1902)

1893

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Pen and ink

Dimensions

sheet: 22 × 15 7/8 in. (55.88 × 40.32 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Cyril Nast and Mrs Mabel Nast Crawford

Accession Number

1954.62.4

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Drawings

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Bibliography
  • Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 3, 343–45, no. 224, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Inscriptions

annotated ion verso RC in pencil; "164"

Signed

signed recto at top: ""It Leads Us To A Challenge" / Gen. U.S. Grant. A. Lincoln."; at LL: "TH. Nast / 1893"; at LR: "IT WAS INDEED A- / 'WILD AND RECKLESS'- / SACRIFICE OF BLOOD AND MONEY TO / SAVE ONE'S COUNTRY TO BE RULED / OVER BY ONE SO UNGRATEFUL! / A UNION VETERAN (SHARPSHOOTER)"

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