The Life & Age of Man. Stages of Mans Life from the Cradle to the Grave.
[after Nathaniel Currier.] D. Needham 12 Exchange St. Buffalo.
Kelloggs & Comstock, 150 Fulton St. NY & 136 Main St Hartford [n.d., c.1850].
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 230 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Trimmed close to printed border and inscriptions, some surface rubbing, laid on card.
A modern take on Shakepeare's 'Sevan Ages of Man, expanding it to ten decades, each with a figure on an arch, a representative animal and lines of verse. Thirty and Forty are represented as soldiers (forty with the Stars and Stripes), with a bull and a lion; Eighty is an old cat by the fire. Based on an original by Nathaniel Currier.
[Ref: 63464] £380.00
Kelloggs & Comstock, 150 Fulton St. NY & 136 Main St Hartford [n.d., c.1850].
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 230 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Trimmed close to printed border and inscriptions, some surface rubbing, laid on card.
A modern take on Shakepeare's 'Sevan Ages of Man, expanding it to ten decades, each with a figure on an arch, a representative animal and lines of verse. Thirty and Forty are represented as soldiers (forty with the Stars and Stripes), with a bull and a lion; Eighty is an old cat by the fire. Based on an original by Nathaniel Currier.
[Ref: 63464] £380.00