Is This “The Day Which the Lord Hath Made?”

R. A. Muller after James C. Beard1872

Details

Title: Is This “The Day Which the Lord Hath Made?”
Creator: R. A. Muller after James C. Beard
Date Created: 1872
Subject Keywords: alcohol, American Studies, days of the week, labor, leisure, picnics, recreation, religions, Sunday, temperance, theater (discipline)
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in block, lower right: “R.A. Muller Sc”; inscribed in block, lower center: “JC BEARD DEL”; printed below image: “IS THIS ‘THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH MADE?’”; adhered to back page of issue: small piece of colored paper printed “W G Atwater Dec 72” [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. 2, no. 51, Saturday 21 December 1872; publication editor Lyman Abbott; in DAC Collection with complete issue as image context
Associated People: Created by R. A. Muller (American, active 19th century), After James C. Beard (American (probably), active before 1872)
Accession Number: 2001.14.4

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