St. Nicholas [serial]

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · 1873 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · 505 pictures

St. Nicholas was a monthly illustrated magazine for children, edited by Mary Mapes Dodge and published in New York by Scribner in 1873. Its pictures are pen-and-ink and wash scenes of domestic interiors, a seated boy reading, a costumed court scene, a fashionable 18th-century parlour, and outdoor play, with loose hatching and lively gesture a designer could borrow for narrative spot illustration.

Children's literature

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