Prang's Chromo: A Journal of Popular Art, Issue 3L. Prang & Company, 1868 - Chromolithography |
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12 cards 30 Blessed Abraham Lincoln admiration ALBUM Alphabet Apple-tree art-critics autumn Bible BIERSTADT'S Birds Boston Daily Advertiser Boston Journal bright brilliant Buffalo Courier Bulletin calf catalogue charming illustration Cherries chicks Christmas chro Chromo-publishers color Companion-pictures copy Correggio's country DACOTAH Daily Advertiser delicate different sets distinguished painter ducks Easter Morn effect eminent executed exquisite finish foliage foreground fuchsias gems GENRE PICTURES Gentlemen,-I glad gold Half-Chromos happy Harriet E Hart hitherto home J. H. A. BONE Johnson's landscape Language of Flowers large cards lithographs little poem LOUIS PRANG LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Love Lydia Maria masterly merit Nahant Nest New-York correspondent oil-colors oil-painting Ornamental paintings parlor perfect plate poet popular Poultry Yard POULTRY-LIFE praise PRANG'S CHROMO printed produced published Reading Magdalena rendered rustic says School seen shade skill specimens success Tait taste Ten Commandments tinted ground tions true to nature ture Views water-color Whig Whittier Whittier's Barefoot Boy writer
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Page 4 - BLESSINGS on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan ! With thy turned-up pantaloons, And thy merry whistled tunes ; With thy red lip, redder still Kissed by strawberries on the hill ; With the sunshine on thy face, Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace : From my heart I give thee joy — I was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thou art — the grown-up man Only is republican.
Page 5 - ... bill, if in any part of the United States east of the Mississippi River, or the states of Louisiana, Missouri, Iowa or Minnesota, within one month ; if within any other of the United States, or New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, or Canada, within two months; if elsewhere in the United States, or in Great Britain, Ireland or France, within three months; and if in other foreign parts...
Page 4 - It represents a comely rustic lad, clad in coarse homespun dress, with his trousers turned up, his hands in his pockets, and the brightest of * knowing * yet innocent smiles on his face and in his eyes. His face is half shaded by his broad-brimmed hat; his feet are firmly planted on a...
Page 4 - ... seems the perfect incarnation of Young America. The accessories of this picture are a distant landscape, with a tree in the middle and foreground. They are well handled; but they serve only to support the figure, which is one of the best pieces that Mr. Johnson has ever produced.
Page 5 - All fees must be paid in advance in specie, Treasury notes, or national-bank notes, or post-office money orders, or certified checks, payable to the "Commissioner of Patents." Money sent by mail will be at the risk of the sender. Letters containing money should be registered. Postage stamps will not be accepted.
Page 4 - The wretched imitation bore the words of the poet and were used as if Mr. Whittier had written them of the chromo in question. He was so disgusted at this -base and wicked perversion of the truth that he at once wrote a stirring letter to Mr. Prang about it, and among other things he took occasion...
Page 4 - ... James Parton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Longfellow, Church the painter, Whittier, and Bayard Taylor; Hints on Framing," by Louis Prang; and two essays on chromo-lithography in America, by Charles Godfrey Leland. No. 2 (for April, 1868) contains an article entitled " Illustrations of Progress, "byLydia Maria Child;" "Controversy with an Art-Critic...
Page 3 - A country scene, composed of a village in the distance, with trees in the middle, and the village pump in the immediate foreground. A...
Page 3 - ... and shades, and the harmony of the colors, in this favorite piece, display the hand of a master. " The Free Christian Commonwealth " says of it, " It is a book of only one page but, for all that, it is a great book, and tells as much of a...
Page 3 - ... as the original. That calf looks so much like our calf, as we turn and see her out of the window, that, for all other purposes than the vulgar one of eating/we do not see but one is just as good as the other.