Little Boy Blue come blow your horn
Datec.1896
Artist
Laura Coombs Hills
(American artist, 1859–1952)
Illustration CitationPrang of Boston Christmas Card, 1896. Central drawing used for cover of Miss Toosey (Boston: Caldwell, 1900)
MediumWatercolor and gold paint on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 7 3/8 × 5 1/4 in. (18.7 × 13.3 cm)
sheet: 9 3/4 × 6 in. (24.8 × 15.2 cm)
sheet: 9 3/4 × 6 in. (24.8 × 15.2 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2018
Object number2018-5
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextCoombs Hills probably designed this watercolor, which illustrates a figure from the Mother Goose nursery rhymes, as a Christmas card, as it features the character’s usual verse changed to a Christmas-themed poem.Little Boy Blue traditionally blows his horn to call the sheep from meadows. In this scene, the call greets Christmas morning.
