St. Nicholas [serial]

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · 1873 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · 492 pictures

St. Nicholas was a children's magazine serial published in New York by Scribner & Co. in 1873, edited by Mary Mapes Dodge and written for young readers. Its pictures include bold black silhouettes of costumed figures in long skirts and feathered hats, a circle of sprawling small children drawn in fine pen lines, and a row of boys on a log in loose sketchy strokes, offering designers examples of silhouette figure work and lively scene composition.

Children's literature

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