Little Boy Blue come blow your horn

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Little Boy Blue come blow your horn
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Little Boy Blue come blow your horn

Datec.1896
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)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2018
Object number2018-5
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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.
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