Details
Contributor Wemmer, Nelson J., associated name.
Van Ingen & Snyder, engraver.
American Sunday-School Union, former owner.
Title ASSU Illustration 5849
Alternate title Woodblock for printing an illustration of a boy and an old woman.
Date [between 1853 and 1856?]
Physical description 1 wood block ; 7.5 x 6.2 x 2.3 cm.
Notes Block numbered in one place: 5849, also numbered 57 in one place.
Image of an old woman in a chair watching a small boy reading nearby.
Illustration appears in Charlie ; or, The bad habit (Philadelphia, between 1866 and 1893?), p. 53. This title was listed in American Sunday-School Union catalogues from March 1867 to at least 1893. Caption of illustration -- "The old lady sat listening in her armchair."
Illustration also appears in Seeds for young sowers (Philadelphia, 1893?). Caption of illustration -- "Keep thy heart."
Signed in reverse: Vaningen Snyder [i.e. Van Ingen & Snyder]
Van Ingen & Snyder, a partnership between William H. Van Ingen and Henry M. Snyder, was active between 1853 and 1871.
“Ri…[rest obscured by paper]” – inscribed on back of block.
“N.J. Wemmer. 5 Pear St. Phila.” -- Back of block. Nelson J. Wemmer is listed (as an artist) at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1848 to 1856.
Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Genre Wood blocks (Printing blocks)
Wood engraving (Process)
End-grain blocks.
Subject Books and reading.
Christian life.
Call number ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 12