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A naked boy with wings—a cherub or putto—and a harp behind his back sits on a great swan, dangling one bare foot over the water of a placid lake. He holds a pen which has a star at the end; he looks pensive as if he is about to write in the book he is holding. Or maybe it’s an iPad and he holds a stylus.

He has curly hair, blown back as if by a warm breeze, and there are treees and perhaps a temple in the background.

The work is signed M. Retsch. 1847, and Eng[rave]d by C. A. Jewett and W. Anderson Cint^l. O.

Retsch is probably the German artist Maurice Retsch, born in Dreseden in 1779 of Hungarian parents.

The engraving accompanies a chapter entitled “Poetry No Fiction” in the book “Family Treasury of General Literature, Science and Art” by Jethro Jackson, found at the end of this omnibus volume.

cherubs, boys, people, swans, birds, nudity, poetry, pens, books, musical instruments, wings, boats, hair, water, lakes, trees

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