March/April

Date1904

Artist Elizabeth Shippen Green (American painter and illustrator, 1871–1954)

Illustration CitationThe Child—A Calendar (Philadelphia: Charles W. Beck, 1904)

MediumCommercial lithograph

Dimensionssheet: 20 1/16 × 13 13/16 in. (51 × 35.1 cm)
mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1977

Object number1977-301.3

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Label TextElizabeth Shippen Green and fellow illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith collaborated on The Child, A Calendar, with each artist creating several pages. In this March/April scene, a boy and girl play the board game Parcheesi, while smaller images portray a child enjoying each month outdoors.