Details
Contributor Green, Jasper, 1829-1910, engraver.
American Sunday-School Union, former owner.
Title ASSU Illustration 7367
Alternate title Woodblock for printing an illustration of two women and a girl.
Date [1872?]
Physical description 1 wood block; 10 x 7 x 2.3 cm.
Notes Block numbered in two places: 7367.
A woman with her hands on her hips and a spoon in one hand faces a girl who sits on a windowsill and rests her feet on a chair; a pot is behind the woman and they appear to be in a kitchen; another woman looks on from a doorway.
Signed: Jasper Green, sc. Jasper Green is listed as an engraver in the Philadelphia city directory for 1872.
“N.J. Wemmer & Son. 215 Pear St. Phila.” – Back of block. Boxwood dealer Nelson J. Wemmer is listed at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1861 to 1876.
“Ruth Allerton Pag [?]” – Inscribed on back of block.
Illustration appears in Ruth Allerton, the missionary’s daughter, frontispiece.
Genre Wood blocks (Printing blocks)
Wood engraving (Process)
End-grain blocks.
Subject Women.
Girls.
Kitchens.
Call number ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 18