Mrs. Otcheson at the Piano, and The Buds (The Mistress of the Parsonage, in Harper's Weekly)
Illustrations to a novel by Ella Rodman Church (b. 1831) "The Mistress of the Parsonage" serialized in "Harper's Weekly" in 1860.
Credit: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
March 3, 1860
Wood engraving
11.1 x 8.9 cm
28.111.1(18)
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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