Title from text below images., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Four designs, numbered 1 to 4, with accompanying lines of verse., and Text below upper left image: 1. If twenty be the spring of youth, the May-day of our years.
Publisher:
Pub. by C. Tilt, Fleet Stt and G.E. Madeley, lithog., Wellington Stt., Strand
An image of the interior of a large and crowded American nursery with scenes of held and cared for by young women, two giving children a piggy-back rides or children playing, bathing or lying quietly in bed. Other children are shown teasing, fighting or abusing their caretakers or animals. One child is shown holding a candle to the dress of a nurse whose hand is holding a switch, ready to strike a child who holds a scary mask to frighten a child in a cradle. One child is shown in a cage, others playing with dogs, cats or a goose
Description:
Title from caption written in ms. on mount., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed with probable loss of title and imprint., and Window mounted to 30 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
Bathing, Cats, Children, Dogs, Nannies (Children's nurses), Nurseries (Rooms & spaces), and Play (Recreation)
Title devised by cataloger., Designed by George Vertue. See Horace Walpole's note on a copy in The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington, CT., Sheet trimmed., and Laid in between front end paper and front flyleaf.
