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Title: “A critical moment.”
Creator: Bensell, Edmund Birckhead, 1842-, artist
L. Prang & Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1878
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 two women in a small rowboat that is about to capsize as a man balances precariously between the boat and a dock; the man's toupee and hat have flown off, and his pipe and spectacles are about to fall into the water.
Registration marks visible in margins. "Bensell. Copyright 1878 by L. Prang & Co."--text, bottom right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 24.13 x 31.12 cm (9 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_PRG_002146
412485
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3519
Language: English
Subject: Boats and boating--Pictorial works
Men--Pictorial works
Women--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Proofs. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Louis Prang Archive
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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