Draws easy / J.G. Brown; Bencke & Scott, Chromolith., N.Y. – Historic Print
(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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This rare antique lithograph captures Draws easy / J.G. Brown; Bencke & Scott, Chromolith., N.Y. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Draws easy / J.G. Brown; Bencke & Scott, Chromolith., N.Y.
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A ragged boy takes his ease with a pipe or cigar in this chromolithograph titled "Draws easy," a phrase about a smoke that pulls well. The picture is by John George Brown, a British-born painter who made his name in New York with sympathetic genre scenes of street boys and working-class children. Bencke & Scott made the color printing, and J. Snedecor published it in New York in 1874. Chromolithography built up color from several stone impressions, which let publishers sell affordable reproductions of popular paintings to households that could not buy the originals.
| Created / published | New York : published by J. Snedecor, 1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Subjects | Boys--1870-1880. Smoking--1870-1880. Poor persons--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 633 × 827 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-188837 |
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