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Title: [Family life in Pompeii]
Creator: Coomans, J. (Joseph), 1816-1890, artist
L. Prang & Co., printer
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 child and seated woman in Roman dress in a well-appointed home in Pompeii; broken doll on the floor near the child; animal-skin rug on the floor and fountain in background.
Title supplied by cataloger based on copy held by the Boston Public Library. Registration marks visible in margins. "Joseph Coomans 1868"--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom left of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 53.34 x 40.64 cm (21 x 16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_PRG_002049
478973
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3348
Language: English
Subject: Children--Pictorial works
Families--Pictorial works
Pompeii (Extinct city)
Women--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Portrait prints. (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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