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The Prodigal Son in Misery by D.W. Kellogg and Company
D.W. Kellogg and Company
This hand colored print depicts a man dressed in ragged clothes seated in a farmyard tending four pigs that are eating. As the subtitle explains, “He would have filled his belly with the Husks that the swine did not eat.”
- Date
- ca 1838
- Type
- lithograph
- Medium
- paper (overall material)
- Department
- NMAH
- Institution
- National Museum of American History
- Object number
- nmah_325210
- Credit
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
