Hungry Birds, from "The Graphic" Christmas Number
After Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle German
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Born in Germany, Bauerle emigrated to Ohio, learned to engrave from an uncle in Cincinnati, then returned to Stuttgart to pursue a career as a children's portraitist and genre painter (his patrons included Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Queen Victoria, Edward Prince of Wales). The present work demonstrates his ability to portray children and taste for sentiment, using a punning title to connect the youngsters eating bread and birds seen through the window. "The Graphic" chose the subject for one of the color-printed wood engravings they published annually as a premium for readers at Christmas, this example issued in 1882. The periodical had been founded in 1869 by William Luson Thomas, a successful wood engraver, publisher and social reformer, and was intended to rival the "Illustrated London News."
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