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Prang’s Aids for Object Teaching. Blacksmith.

Boston: Published by L. Prang & Co., 1874. Chromolithograph, 12” x 19.75” plus margins.

Trades & Occupations. Plate 4. One plate from this seldom-seen series depicting various trades, the most notable of several educational works published by Prang between 1874 and 1876. Depicted here is a blacksmith in his shop hammering out horseshoes, with a boy at the bellows beside him and a man shoeing a horse in the background.

Prang’s Aids for Object Teaching was originally accompanied by a teacher’s manual explaining how the prints were to be used in the classroom. Exercises ranged from simply naming the objects in the print to describing their uses and the processes involved. Noting the rarity of these prints in her 1973 book on Prang, Katharine McClinton observed that “few complete series exist,” citing the New York Historical Society, the AAS, the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Library of Congress as all having partial sets. The AAS has since completed theirs.

REFERENCES: McClinton, Katharine. The Chromolithographs of Louis Prang (NY, 1973), pp. 120-126.

CONDITION: Three expertly repaired tears just into image at left, one expertly repaired tear just into image at right.

Item #5886

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