Cave dwellers

Title:: Cave dwellers
Description:: Information from accompanying cards: The fore edge painting on this volume is somewhat unusual and exceptionally interesting. It depicts a scene in the days when men lived in caves, showing the males members of a family, with stone clubs, preparing to defend themselves against a mammoth and several other animals while the women and children hide in the entrance to their cave home.
Date:: (c) 1819
Format:: Paintings
Genre:: Watercolors
Fore-edge painting
Location:: Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):: Special Collections, Rare Books
Subjects:: Cave dwellers
Families
Animals
Confrontations
Extent:: 1 painting : watercolor on fore edge of book
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Notes:: Title supplied by cataloger.
Found on: The world before the flood : a poem, in ten cantos with other occasional pieces / by James Montgomery
Notes (acquisition):: Gift of Albert H. Wiggin, May 1951.
Notes (date):: Date of painting unknown. Publication date of book: 1819.
Notes (object):: Fore-edge/fanned to the right
Identifier:: 07_04_000015A
Call #:: RARE BKS PR5032 .W6 1819x
Barcode:: 39999063209868