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The Dust Barrel Nuisance, from "The Graphic," vol. 1

Arthur Boyd Houghton

March 26, 1870

The Dust Barrel Nuisance, from "The Graphic," vol. 1 by Arthur Boyd Houghton

Medium

Wood engraving

Dimensions

Image: 4 3/16 × 4 1/8 in. (10.7 × 10.5 cm) Sheet: 6 1/8 × 5 3/8 in. (15.5 × 13.7 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928

Accession Number

28.111.8(14)

Rights

Public Domain

About the Artist

Arthur Boyd Houghton · 1836–1875

**Arthur Boyd Houghton (1836–1875)** was a British painter and illustrator renowned for his contributions to the golden age of wood-engraved book illustration. Born on 13 March 1836 in Kotagiri, Madras, India, he was the fourth son of Captain John Michael Houghton, a draughtsman in the East India Company’s Marine. As a child, an accident with a toy cannon left him blind in one eye, which later lim...

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