Details
Contributor Van Ingen & Snyder, engraver.
Grottenthaler, Vincent, associated name.
American Sunday-School Union, former owner.
Title ASSU Illustration 7067
Alternate title Woodblock for printing an illustration of four children looking at a sundial.
Date [between 1869 and 1871?]
Physical description 1 wood block ; 12.5 x 10.0 x 2.3 cm.
Notes Block numbered in two places: 7067.
Image of a tall child who appears to be gesturing to three smaller children about the sundial; the youngest boy hold the edge of the sundial while another boy and girl look on; vines wrap around the sundial and clouds are visible in the sky.
Signed: VI-S [i.e. Van Ingen-Snyder]. Van Ingen & Snyder, a partnership between William H. Van Ingen and Henry M. Snyder, was active between 1853 and 1871.
"V. Grottenthaler, 402 Library St Phila." – Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1869 to 1876.
Illustration appears in Child's world, v. 16 no. 7 (1877), p. 2
Illustration also appears in Child's world, v. 27, no. 1 (1870), p. 1.
Genre Wood blocks (Printing blocks)
Wood engraving (Process)
End-grain blocks.
Subject Children.
Sundials.
Call number ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 29