General Tom Thumb by Nathaniel Currier
General Tom Thumb by Nathaniel Currier
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- Description (Brief)
- Color advertising print of a small man (Tom Thumb) in dress suit standing on the seat of an elaborately carved side chair. This central image is surrounded by twelve views of Tom Thumb in various roles and topped by a view of a miniature coach and horses.
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Date made
- 1849
- depicted
- Thumb, Tom
- maker
- Currier, Nathaniel
- original artist
- Plumbe, Jr., John
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 10 1/2 in x 13 in; 26.67 cm x 33.02 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.3492a
- catalog number
- 60.3492A
- accession number
- 228146
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Circus
- Museums and Galleries
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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