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Title: April showers bring forth May flowers
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 woman crying into a handkerchief with a hand on an older man's arm and a dog looking up at her; a mischievous-looking boy holds a flowered hat with ribbons on a stand at right.
" 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. 4 [1 handwritten in pen over printed 4]. 'April Showers bring forth May flowers.' 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_002140
412479
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3430
Language: English
Subject: Boys--Pictorial works
Dogs--Pictorial works
Men--Pictorial works
Women--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (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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