St. Nicholas [serial]

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · 1873 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · 835 pictures

St. Nicholas was a monthly illustrated magazine for children published in New York by Scribner & Co. from 1873, edited by Mary Mapes Dodge and serialised in its pages. The four pictures are halftone reproductions of period illustrations: a man and a boy reading by a leafy backdrop, a night scene of a lantern-lit wagon seen from a shadowed figure in the foreground, and two interior scenes of uniformed soldiers and a woman at a desk and before a formal officer. A designer could take from them the moody lamplit night lighting, the strong dark-and-light contrast of the engraved tonework, and the plain staging of figures in period dress.

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