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Contributor American Sunday-School Union, former owner.
Title ASSU Illustration 3654
Alternate title Woodblock for printing an illustration of peacocks.
Date [not before 1844?]
Physical description 1 wood block ; 10.7 x 7.4 x 2.3 cm.
Notes Block numbered in two places: 3654.
Image of peacocks. One peacock is perched on a pedestal in the foreground, and two other peacocks are in the background. In the far distance, there is part of a building is visible.
Illustration appears in The Bird book (Philadelphia, between 1844 and 1853?), opp. p. 57. This title was listed in American Sunday-School Union catalogs from Jan. 1845 to at least 1893.
Illustration also appears in Jenny and the birds (Philadelphia, between 1864 and 1893?), p. 243. This title was listed in American Sunday-School Union catalogs from 1864 to at least 1893.
Genre Illustration also appears in Child's world, vol. 13 no. 19 (1874), p. 2.
Wood blocks (Printing blocks)
Wood engraving (Process)
End-grain blocks.
Subject Peacocks.
Peafowl.
Birds.
Animals.
Call number ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 1

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