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Title: There's never smoke - without fire
Alternative Title: Society pictures.
Creator: Pilule, artist
L. Prang & Co., printer
L. Prang & Co., publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1875
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 Cupid with a young woman hiding love letters behind her back when confronted by her mother, who holds out a small bow and arrow; a cat plays with yarn spilling from a knitting basket at center.
" Copyright 1875 by L. Prang & Co."--text, bottom left of image. "'Pilule' del."--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom right of image. "Prang's American Chromos. Society Pictures. By 'Pilule.' No. 1 [4 handwritten in pen over printed 1]. 'There's never smoke without fire.' Original in the possession of the Publishers. Chromo-Lithographed and Published by L. Prang & Co. Boston, Mass. Copyright 1875, by L. Prang & Co."--text, label on verso.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 35.56 x 43.18 cm (14 x 17 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_PRG_002143
412482
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3433
Language: English
Subject: Cupid (Roman deity)--Pictorial works
Love-letters--Pictorial works
Women--Pictorial works
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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