Details
Contributor American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title The cruel boys. [graphic] : What shows a worse disposition than to abuse a poor dumb creature. It is the beginning of a course, that leads to robbery and murder.
Publisher Philad[elphi]a : American S.S. Union, 146 Chestnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 40 x 29 cm (16 x 11.5)
Description Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing three boys mistreating a horse on a dirt path. One boy, attired in a jacket and pants rides the crouching, saddleless horse, raised stick in hand, as the other two boys, stand on either side of the animal, raised sticks in hand. One boy, in the right foreground, wears no shoes. Bushes, weeds, rocks, and a small body of water line the dirt path. A house with a smoking chimney is visible in the right background.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Issued as plate 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).
Originally accompanied by text titled "Kindness to Animals" moralizing that it is wrong to abuse "poor dumb beasts whom God has put in their power."
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 293
Gift of Michael Zinman.
Subject Children -- Conduct of life.
Abuse.
Animal welfare.
Arts in Christian education.
Boys.
Horses.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Genre prints -- 1840-1850.
Printer American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *GC - Morality [P.2017.28]
Accession number P.2017.28