A stunner : Wa-al! If that'r shader's right, my hat's a stunner / designed, etched, & published by D.C. Johnston, studio building, Boston.

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Title: A stunner : Wa-al! If that'r shader's right, my hat's a stunner / designed, etched, & published by D.C. Johnston, studio building, Boston.
Date: [185-?]
Creator: Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865, etcher.
Notes: Street scene showing a man in worn clothing and a battered stove pipe hat leaning up against a drugstore sign post with his hands in his pockets, smoking a pipe. He is looking down at a shadow of the sign post projected on the facade of a drugstore; the shadow he is seeing is the mortar at the top of the post, but it looks similar to the shadow a stately stove pipe hat would make.; Watermark visible in lower right margin.
Names and Subjects: Tramps--1850-1860.; Drugstores--1850-1860.; Shadows.; Caricatures and cartoons--United States.; Prints shelf.; United States--Massachusetts--Boston.
Genre: Satires (Visual works) 1850-1860.; Etchings 1850-1860.
ID: 273
Barcode: B6486105
Physical Description: 1 print : etching, tinted ; plate mark 28.3 x 20.4 cm., on sheet 38.4 x 29.4 cm
Repository: William L. Clements Library
Date Added/Updated: 2016-01-06 00:09:17

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Collection: William L. Clements Library Image Bank
Image Size: 3559 x 5149
File Size: 1 MB
Record: 273
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-273/wcl000346

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Full citation: "A stunner : Wa-al! If that'r shader's right, my hat's a stunner / designed, etched, & published by D.C. Johnston, studio building, Boston.". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-273/wcl000346. In the digital collection William L. Clements Library Image Bank. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. July 17, 2025.