Skip to main content
Grand Slack Rope Performance. By Master Dick.
Grand Slack Rope Performance. By Master Dick.

Grand Slack Rope Performance. By Master Dick.

PrinterPrinted by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg American, 1840 - 1867
PublisherPublished by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg American, 1840 - 1867
PublisherPublished by F. P. Whiting American, born 1840
PrinterPrinted by Phelps & Watson American, 1859 - 1864
Date1857-1865
MediumLithography; printer's ink and watercolor on wove paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 12 7/16 x 9 5/16in. (31.6 x 23.7cm)
Sheet (height x width): 14 x 9 15/16in. (35.6 x 25.2cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Samuel St. John Morgan
DescriptionAn elderly man is seated in an upholstered armchair at the right. He wears eyeglasses, a shirt, vest, breeches, hose, and shoes. An open book rests in his lap. He appears to be asleep. At the left, three small boys play with a pendulum clock. One boy is kneeling on the floor, holding up another boy who hangs onto one of the cords beneath the clock. A third boy is kneeling on a stool in a doorway at the far left. Two additional books lie on the floor. The book at the left is open to an alphabet. A wicker basket hangs from a nail at the upper right. The walls of the room are brick, the floor is stone.
Object number1955.15.17
InscribedOn recto, lithographed title beneath image, "GRAND SLACK ROPE PERFORMANCE. / By Master Dick." Lower right, in pencil, "5-".

On verso, in pencil: lower right, "consv CPC 1987"; "Dwr 41" accession number and "63980 [crossed out in blue ink]".
Subject Terms
    Collections
    • Kellogg Brothers Lithographs
    On View
    Not on view
    Napoleon at Home.
    Kelloggs & Comstock
    1848-1850
    The Punishment.
    E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
    1847
    Single.
    Kelloggs & Comstock
    1848-1850
    The Old Cooper's Mistake.
    E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
    1857-1865
    Single.
    Kelloggs & Comstock
    1848-1851
    Washington Family.
    E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
    1845-1846
    Married.
    E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
    1855-1856
    Childhood.
    E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
    1855-1856
    Washington.
    D. W. Kellogg & Co.
    1830-1840
    Washington.
    Kelloggs & Comstock
    1848-1850