General Tom Thumb by Nathaniel Currier: Museum Object and Cultural History
General Tom Thumb by Nathaniel Currier: Date made: 1849. depicted: Thumb, Tom. maker: Currier, Nathaniel.
The object in the museum catalogue
Color advertising print of a small man (Tom Thumb) in dress suit standing on the seat of an elaborately carved side chair. This central image is surrounded by twelve views of Tom Thumb in various roles and topped by a view of a miniature coach and horses.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1849
- depicted: Thumb, Tom
- maker: Currier, Nathaniel
- original artist: Plumbe, Jr., John
- Object Name: lithograph
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: image: 10 1/2 in x 13 in; 26.67 cm x 33.02 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York City
- Subject: Circus
- Subject: Museums and Galleries
- ID Number: DL.60.3492a
- catalog number: 60.3492A
- accession number: 228146
- Credit Line: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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