Hand-colored engravings

Great Britain

1776

Closed:7 1/2" x 3", open:7 1/2" x 12 1/2"

Published by Robert Sayer this harlequinade has four panels with poetry above and below the images. The flaps can each be opened to further reveal the developing story.

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Lithograph

America

1816

Closed:5 3/4" x 3 3/4", opened: 11 1/2" x 14 3/4"

A very popular Harlequinade first published in the United States c.1787 and based on an earlier British title. The manuscript was the work of Benjamin Sands and the woodcuts by James Poupard. This edition was printed by J. Rakestraw and published by Samuel Wood, New York

0454

Lithograph

Germany

c.1840

Closed:5 1/4" x 8 5/8", open:7 7/8" x 8 5/8"

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Watercolor and ink

America

July 1899

Closed: 4" x 19 3/4", open: 8" x 19 3/4"

A homemade harlequinade with Adam, Eve, a lion and a soldier. There is a text with each fold out and the one with the soldier shows a proud man with gold and silver but as we unfold the flaps we find neither gold nor silver can avert death.

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