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Little Bo Peep / J.G. Brown ; J. Howard Collier lith. – Antique Wall Art

Little Bo Peep / J.G. Brown ; J. Howard Collier lith., Chromolith. & Pub. by L. Prang & Co., 1867. — antique lithograph
Little Bo Peep / J.G. Brown ; J. Howard Collier lith., Chromolith. & Pub. by L. Prang & Co., 1867.. Antique lithograph from the Family Life collection.

(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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A window into the past: Little Bo Peep / J.G. Brown ; J. Howard Collier lith., preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Little Bo Peep / J.G. Brown ; J. Howard Collier lith.

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Few nursery rhymes have been illustrated as often as "Little Bo Peep," and this 1867 chromolithograph stands out because it adapts the rhyme into a painted genre scene by John George Brown, an American painter best known for sympathetic portraits of city children. J. Howard Collier made the lithographic stone that transferred Brown's composition to paper, and the print was issued by Louis Prang & Co. of Boston. Prang built his reputation on color prints of this kind, which brought reproductions of paintings into American parlors and nurseries at a modest price during the 1860s. The piece shows how sentimental childhood imagery moved from gallery walls into everyday domestic life.

Created / publishedChromolith. & Pub. by L. Prang & Co., 1867.
Medium1 print : chromolithograph.
GenreChromolithographs 1860-1870.
SubjectsGirls--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,160 × 1,455 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217230

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