| Contributor |
Grottenthaler, Vincent, associated name. |
|
American Sunday-School Union, former owner. |
| Title |
ASSU Illustration 7054 |
| Alternate title |
Woodblock for printing an illustration of a man, a woman, and a girl indoors. |
| Date |
[between 1867 and 1876?] |
| Physical description |
1 wood block ; 9.7 x 7.0 x 2.3 cm. |
| Notes |
Block numbered in one place: 7054, also 1741 on small adhesive label on back of block. |
|
Image of a man pushing or guiding a girl toward a woman sitting on a small sofa or fainting couch; the girl looks back and
up at the man and holds one of his hands, and extends the other toward the woman; the woman leans against the arm of the sofa;
the bottom half of a portrait of a man is visible on the wall behind the sofa.
|
|
“[V] Grottenthaler [?]” — Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) in Philadelphia city directories
from 1867 to 1876.
|
|
“[?] 296” – Inscribed on back of block. |
|
Back of block partially obscured by small pasted-down paper. |
|
Illustration appears in Child's world, v. 15 no. 11 (1876), p. 3. |
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Illustration also appears in Jessie Burton; or, danger in delay (Philadelphia, 1869), opp. p. 317. |
| Genre |
Wood blocks (Printing blocks) |
|
Wood engraving (Process) |
|
End-grain blocks. |
| Subject |
Men. |
|
Women. |
|
Girls. |
|
Living rooms. |
| Call number |
ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 16 |
