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Photo, Print, Drawing "He made some hootch and tried it on the dog"

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[ digital file from b&w film copy neg. ]
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About this Item

Title

  • "He made some hootch and tried it on the dog"

Summary

  • An old man with a scraggly goatee, holding a partially eaten sandwich and a bottle, looks at his dog in amazement as the animal's back hunches, his eyes cross and his hair stands on end.

Names

  • Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), 1851-1928, artist

Created / Published

  • 1921 Oct. 6 [publication date]

Headings

  • -  Alcoholic beverages--1920-1930
  • -  Dogs--1920-1930

Headings

  • Cartoons (Commentary)--American--1920-1930.
  • Drawings--American--1920-1930.
  • Periodical illustrations--American--1920-1930.

Genre

  • Cartoons (Commentary)--American--1920-1930
  • Drawings--American--1920-1930
  • Periodical illustrations--American--1920-1930

Notes

  • -  Caption label from exhibit "Monstrous Craws...": Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) is remembered as one of the great comic draughtsmen in the history of American illustration. Best known for affectionate, humorous portraits of rural characters, both human and animal, he published work in such popular periodicals as Harper's Monthly, Life, Collier's, Puck, Scribner's, and Harper's Weekly. He also illustrated more than ninety books by such authors as Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Theodore Roosevelt. Frost achieved widespread critical and popular success with his masterful, inventive illustrations for Joel Chandler Harris's classic series of "Uncle Remus" books, beginning with Uncle Remus and His Friends (1892). Early in Frost's career, author F. Hopkinson Smith wrote of his drawings, "Only a dot and a line, and yet there is a whole volume of anxiety, alarm, misery, and fright expressed in this same dot and line one no larger than the head of a pin, and the other no longer than its point. That is what I call a genius."
  • -  Copyright by Life Publishing Company. This drawing must not be reproduced without written permission from Life Publishing Co. Every impression must carry the line "Copr. Life Pub. Co."
  • -  Signed, lower right: A.B. Frost.
  • -  Title inscribed below image.
  • -  Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1977; (DLC/PP-1977:215.18)
  • -  Published in: Life, October 6, 1921.
  • -  Exhibit loan 4168-L.
  • -  Exhibited: Cartoonists Guild, "The Art in Cartooning," 1975; Library of Congress, "Wit's End," 1985.
  • -  Exhibited: "Monstrous Craws and Character Flaws: Masterpieces of Cartoon Caricature," Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., February 25-July 1998.

Medium

  • 1 drawing : India ink over pencil, with scraping out on bristol board ; 29.8 x 32.9 cm. (sheet)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • SWANN - no. 1003 (B size) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature & cartoon (Library of Congress)

Repository

Digital Id

  • ppmsc 05880 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.05880
  • cph 3b31406 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b31406
  • cph 3c36645 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c36645

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2009616734

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsc-05880 (digital file from original) LC-USZ62-84853 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ62-136645 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication. No renewal in Copyright Office.

Online Format

  • image

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  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-05880 (digital file from original) LC-USZ62-84853 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ62-136645 (b&w film copy neg.)
  • Call Number: SWANN - no. 1003 (B size) [P&P]
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Frost, A. B. , Artist. "He made some hootch and tried it on the dog". , 1921. [Oct. 6 publication date] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2009616734/.

APA citation style:

Frost, A. B. (1921) "He made some hootch and tried it on the dog". , 1921. [Oct. 6 publication date] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2009616734/.

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Frost, A. B. , Artist. "He made some hootch and tried it on the dog". [Oct. 6 publication date] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2009616734/>.