From This the Suffering Wives, Mothers & Daughters, Pray to Be Delivered

Anonymous after James C. Beard1874

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Title: From This the Suffering Wives, Mothers & Daughters, Pray to Be Delivered
Creator: Anonymous after James C. Beard
Date Created: 1874
Subject Keywords: alcohol, American Studies, maternity, religions, sex role, snakes, temperance
Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in block, lower right: “Jas. C. Beard Del”; printed in image, upper left: “FROM THIS THE SUFFERING WIVES, MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS, PRAY TO BE DELIVERED.”; adhered to back page of issue: small piece of colored paper printed “316 W G Atwater Jun 74” [distributor or retailer’s stock-aging slip?]
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Weedon Endowment funds, 2001
Materials & Techniques: Wood engraving on wove paper. Watermark: No watermark
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Front cover illustration for “The Illustrated Christian Weekly” (New York: American Tract Society) vol. 4, no. 15, Saturday 11 April 1874; publication editor Lyman Abbott; in DAC Collection with complete issue as image context
Associated People: Created by Anonymous, After James C. Beard (American (probably), active before 1872)
Accession Number: 2001.14.7

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