Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Destruction
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.4
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Luce Center
Comic book
Object Number:
2002.1.1359
Date:
1897
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
10 3/8 x 7 x 1/4 in.
Description:
This comic book features Outcault's Yellow Kid. The cover reads "Vol.I. No.4. Price 5 Cents/ TheYellow Kid/ R.F. Outcault By Permission of / The N.Y. Journal." The Yellow Kid is sitting in a fancy restauarant spilling wine from a glass as he makes a toast. His gown reads "Well Here's To Happy Days See". On the reverse is an advertisment for the N.Y. Sunday Journal.
Credit Line:
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
