Details
Contributor B., engraver.
American Sunday-School Union, former owner.
Title ASSU Illustration 7900
Alternate title Woodblock for printing an illustration of a girl dancing.
Date [s.a.]
Physical description 1 wood block ; 9.1 x 7 x 2.3 cm.
Notes Block numbered in two places: 7900, also 383 [?] faintly in one place, and 1176 on small adhesive label on back of block.
Image of a girl raising one arm while dancing on a small slope under a tree; she is surrounded by five other boys and girls and a woman holding a small child; one boy wears a cloth hat and shoes with pointed toes, possibly sabots or other clogs, and a pile of these shoes lies to the side of the dancing girl, who appears to wear a different style of heeled shoe; the rest of the children are barefoot, and the girls wear head-kerchiefs or coifs; the woman wears a dress with a broad skirt, possibly a hoop skirt; more trees are visible in the distance.
Signed: B.
Genre Wood engraving (Process)
Wood blocks (Printing blocks)
End-grain blocks.
Subject Children.
Dance.
Call number ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 17