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Field name | Value |
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Title | Whittier's Barefooted Boy |
Date | 1868 |
Record ID | 543945 |
Collection Name | Louis Prang Chromolithography |
Reference | (MWA)543945; (OCoLC)on1011657293 |
Box | Prang Collection Box 055 |
Theme | Leisure and Play |
Library of Congress Subject | Boys--Pictorial works Genre prints |
Genre | Poetry and Verse Pictorial Works |
Description | Barefoot Boy proof – one of the firm’s most famous prints. Chromolithograph progressive proof book demonstrating the progression of the chromolithograph process for an art print. Pasted to first page is an outline drawing of image to be lithographed. Includes forty eight color proofs showing each color on its own, and as it is seen layered onto the previous color, creating the final print. |
Author | Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) |
Publisher | L Prang & Company |
Places | Boston |
Illustrator | Johnson, Eastman (1824-1906) Harring, Hermann |
Document Type | Proof Book |
Book Type | Genre prints Chromolithographs Literary prints Progressive proofs |
Size | 1 v. [49] leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 x 27 cm |
Catalog Notes | Progressive proof book (accordian-style) illustrating the process of creating the chromolithograph of the "Barefoot Boy". At head of title: Prang's American chromos. Title from paper label on the front pastedown. Cover title: The Barefoot Boy. "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1868, by L. Prang & Co., in the clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Mass." |
Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |
Catalog Record Note | Catalog Records (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |