Details
Creator Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist.
Contributor American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title The rogue caught [graphic] : These boys often told, not to throw stones, but they would not mind and now one of them has broken the grocers window, and he or his poor father must pay for it / M.H.T.
Publisher [Philadelphia: American S.S. Union, 146 Chestnut St]
Date [ca. 1849]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 31 x 24 cm.(12.25 x 9.25 in.)
Description Depicts a grocery clerk, in his apron, angrily grabbing a boy outside of his “Temperance Grocery” store that contains a broken window. One of the boy's mischievious friends holds his knee in pain as the other flees from him and the clerk. Two girls depart from the store entrance behind the hurt boy. Rows of merchandise line the window of the store.
Notes Date inferred from complementary print with dated manuscript note.
Not in Wainwright.
pdcp00025
Issued in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853).
Accompanied by text titled "A Common Snare" moralizing about the tempation to do wrong is one of the "snares of the Wicked One" that will lead one to ruin. "Fear God and you need fear nothing else."
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 196
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union
Subject Children -- Conduct of life.
Male juvenile deliquients.
Grocers.
Grocery stores.
Broken glass.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Genre prints -- 1840-1850.
Printer American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Picture Collection. FLP| FLP Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union