Late 19th century french illustration of male as plaything
July 4, 2007 10:43 PM Subscribe
I'm trying to locate/identify a late 19th century illustration (almost certainly French) that depicts a miniature man on a table being prodded by (I think) a knitting needle held by one of 2 seated, bored looking women.
It's kind of a quintessential image of that notion of males being a play thing of women. It could be a print or a pastel sketch but I don't think it was a book illustration. I *thought* it was in the NYPL digital gallery but I've spent a fair amount of time unsuccessfully re-searching there so maybe I was mistaken. If it's not by someone famous it is surely a fairly famous image itself. I would have thought it was from around 1870 but my radar hasn't found it thus far so that date might also not be the most accurate. Cheers.
It's kind of a quintessential image of that notion of males being a play thing of women. It could be a print or a pastel sketch but I don't think it was a book illustration. I *thought* it was in the NYPL digital gallery but I've spent a fair amount of time unsuccessfully re-searching there so maybe I was mistaken. If it's not by someone famous it is surely a fairly famous image itself. I would have thought it was from around 1870 but my radar hasn't found it thus far so that date might also not be the most accurate. Cheers.
Response by poster: Thanks Brittanie. Here's a large image: it was the Library of Congress that I had been thinking about. Looks like I misremembered date, content, location, origin and style. Is there a prize for that? And I thought I'd given google images a try a couple of weeks ago. My powers must be waning.
posted by peacay at 12:15 AM on July 5, 2007
posted by peacay at 12:15 AM on July 5, 2007
Response by poster: And stop poking me with that damned knitting needle!
posted by peacay at 12:44 AM on July 5, 2007
posted by peacay at 12:44 AM on July 5, 2007
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From the link: It was apparently drawn by Charles Dana Gibson, of "Gibson Girl" fame.
posted by Brittanie at 12:03 AM on July 5, 2007