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Title: Prang's Valentines
Alternative Title: On the warpath.
Creator: Hatfield (Artist), artist
L. Prang & Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1884
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 (likely meant to represent Venus) standing on a bed of roses being pulled by a pair of doves accompanied by baby Cupid in the folds of her mantle holding a notched bow and arrow in an advertisement for Prang's Valentine's Day greeting cards.
Registration marks visible in margins, color bar in right margin. "Hatfield. Oct. 1884"--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom right margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 60.8 x 38.26 cm (23 15/16 x 15 1/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_PRG_002029
478962
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3330
Language: English
Subject: Birds--Pictorial works
Cupid (Roman deity)--Pictorial works
Roses--Pictorial works
Venus (Roman deity)--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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