I. West Taber
Thomas Nast drawing himself
1889
Purchased on the Photography Collectors Committee Purchase Fund.
2022.169
Inscriptions/Markings
Recto: printed, lower left, "Taber"; signed and dated by Nast in black ink, lower center, "Th: Nast. / 1889."; printed, lower right, "8 Montgomery Street, / Opposite the Palace and Grand Hotels, / San Francisco."
Provenance
Paul Hertzmann.
Summary
Cabinet card with a three-quarters portrait of German-born American cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902), turned to the right and drawing a portrait of himself at an easel.
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