Childhood's happy hours / Wilhelm Pister. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Childhood's happy hours / Wilhelm Pister., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Childhood's happy hours / Wilhelm Pister.
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A boy blowing soap bubbles while a dog looks on gives this chromolithograph its title, *Childhood's Happy Hours*. Published in New York by Caldwell & Co. around 1873 or 1874, it credits Wilhelm Pister as the artist and carries a copyright in the name of W.E. Caldwell. Chromolithography used a separate stone for each color, which let publishers sell bright genre scenes like this one cheaply to middle-class households. Sentimental pictures of children at play were especially popular for parlors and nurseries in the 1870s.
| Created / published | New York : published by Caldwell & Co., c1873, c1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Genre prints 1870-1880.Chromolithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Copyright by W.E. Caldwell. |
| Subjects | Boys--1870-1880. Bubbles--1870-1880. Dogs--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,144 × 1,447 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217229 |
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