Details
Contributor Van Ingen & Snyder, engraver.
Wemmer, Nelson J., associated name.
American Sunday-School Union, former owner.
Title ASSU Illustration 5838
Alternate title Woodblock for printing an illustration of three children and a mouse.
Date [between 1853 and 1856?]
Physical description 1 wood block ; 7.4 x 6.2 x 2.3 cm.
Notes Block numbered in two places: 5838, also 45 in two places faintly, 34 in one place, 4 (defaced) before the number 5838 in two places.
Image of three children looking at a cage with a mouse in it; the cage is placed on the seat of a chair, and a cat stands beside the chair.
Signed: Van Ingen-Snyder. Van Ingen & Snyder, a partnership between William H. Van Ingen and Henry M. Snyder, was active between 1853 and 1871.
“N.J. Wemmer. 5 Pear St. Phila.” – Back of block. Nelson J. Wemmer is listed (as an artist) at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1848 to 1856.
Illustration appears in New book of two hundred pictures, p. 75.
Genre Wood blocks (Printing blocks)
Wood engraving (Process)
End-grain blocks.
Subject Children.
Mice.
Cats.
Pets.
Call number ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 22