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The Bookish Pigs prints

The Bookish Pigs prints

Descriptive Summary

Title: The Bookish Pigs prints
Creator: Hewitt, Kathryn
Dates: 1980
Language(s): English
Extent: 1 oversize_folders
Collection Number: ms4396
Repository: Hargrett Library

Collection Description

Scope and Content

Six color prints that are sixteen by twenty inches. Prints feature scenes of anthropomorphic pigs interacting with books. Scenes include a book auction, an old scholar buried beneath a bookshelf, an impoverished bookseller, a drunk bookseller, book thieves being roasted, and an adaptation of Carl Spitzweg's "The Bookworm".


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item, box, folder], The Bookish Pigs prints, ms4396, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.


Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Color prints.

Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 
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1Prints, 1980