Details
Contributor S.B.R., engraver.
American Sunday-School Union, former owner.
Title ASSU Illustration 7019
Alternate title Woodblock for printing an illustration of a boy and two women.
Date [between 1869 and 1876?]
Physical description 1 wood block ; 9.5 x 6.8 x 2.3 cm.
Notes Block numbered in two places: 7019, also 1263 on small adhesive label on back of block.
Image of a barefoot boy with his hat in his hand facing a woman at the threshold of a building; the woman wears a bonnet and carries a folded parasol; behind the woman are hats and a coat, which may hang on pegs near the entrance; a second woman stands beside and slightly behind the boy, with one hand placed on a doorknob and the other holding something loosely at her side.
Signed: SBR.
“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.
“Twenty-Five cents or The Grateful Irish Boy” – Inscribed on back of block.
Genre Wood blocks (Printing blocks)
Wood engraving (Process)
End-grain blocks.
Subject Boys.
Women.
Call number ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 19