I am hoping someone can help me with a particularly difficult reference question that is outside my area of expertise. A faculty member is looking for more information about the artist behind an illustration that appeared in
Punch magazine on January 8, 1881 called “Cherry Un-Ripe” (
http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/XR509876/Cherry-Un-ripe?img=1&search=Unripe&bool=phrase).
The illustration is uncredited, but through HathiTrust, we’ve been able to establish that the artist was a Mr. Stowers:
The History of “Punch, Volume 1”
An evening from among the thousand evenings which may be spent with "Punch."
The faculty member would like to know anything more that’s available about Stowers, in particular when he was born (the original caption - although presumably facetious – implies he may have been a student himself). If anyone has any other ideas about where
we could learn more about him, I would be extremely grateful (you may reply to me off–list at
[log in to unmask]). Thank you very much in advance for your help!
Mark
Mark Szarko
Literature, Global Studies and Languages,
Philosophy, and Theater Arts Librarian
MIT Libraries
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617.258.8022
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