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.
"Portrait of Thomas Morton, half-length; seated to right, with head turned to look to front; wearing a double-breasted coat fastened with two bottons, over waistcoat, shirt with standing collar and neckerchief tied in a bow; after Shee."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, and place and date of publication from similar print in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0612.1113., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text., and Stamp on verso: Copyright Fredk. Hollyer, Pembroke Square, Kensington.
