Open Your Mouth and Shut Your Eyes (from "Harper's Weekly")

After John George Brown American, born England

Publisher Harper's Weekly American

May 16, 1874

Not on view

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Title: Open Your Mouth and Shut Your Eyes (from "Harper's Weekly")
Artist: After John George Brown (American (born England), Durham 1831–1913 New York)
Publisher: Harper's Weekly (American, 1857–1916)
Date: May 16, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: Image: 13 1/2 × 9 1/16 in. (34.3 × 23 cm)
Sheet: 14 15/16 × 10 3/16 in. (38 × 25.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
Object Number: 28.111.6(14)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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