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Title: Whittier's barefooted boy
Alternative Title: Prang's American chromos.
Creator: Johnson, Eastman, 1824-1906, artist
L. Prang & Co., printer
L. Prang & Co., publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1868
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a small barefoot boy in overalls standing on a rock in a stream inspired by the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier; a dirt path behind him leads past a stand of trees towards a house in the distance at left.
"After Eastman Johnson. Original in possession of the Publishers. 'Blessings on thee, little man ... Blessings on thee, barefoot boy!' -- Whittier. Chromo-Lithographed and Published by L. Prang & Co. Washington St., cor. Gardner, Boston. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1868, by L. Prang & Co., in the Clerk's [Office of the District] Court of the District of Mass."--text, label on verso. "List of Prang's Chromos, October 1, 1869... by L. Prang & Co., Fine Art Publishers, Boston."--text, price list on verso. Portion of a handwritten letter remains affixed to verso. "L. Prang & Co., Boston"--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; image 33.5 x 25.4 cm (13 3/16 x 10 in.) ; overall 45.72 x 38.42 cm (18 x 15 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_PRG_002306
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3291
Language: English
Subject: Boys--Pictorial works
Children--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Portrait prints. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Louis Prang Archive
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Relation: priHHC_PRG_0000287

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