Automatic toy works, New York. [from old catalog] · New York, Lockwood & Crawford, stationers · leaf 16
This figure represents an artist in his studio in an effort to surpassRaphael. He is dressed in his morning gown and smoking cap, andappears to be very much engaged with his painting. He surveys, indifferent lights, his incompleted work of art, which rests on a smalleasel, and then commences to… … This domestic picture is perfect in miniature. No grandmother,with all her experience, ever rocked a cradle more naturally or withmore tranquilizing effect. While she rocks the cradle with her foot,with one hand she fans the infant sleeper, and with the other handwipes her face with the…
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