Scirmshaw tooth, William H. Marsh the Infant Drummer

tooth

Tooth, engraved and colored. On one side, in a ribbon at the top "WILLIAM H MARSH", with image of a boy in a drummer's uniform standing on a platform, playing a drum below. On the platform "INFANT DRUMMER". On the other side, a seated symbolic female figure with a coruncopia, a sheaf of wheat, an a plaque inscribed "PLENTY"; faithfully copied from a detail in an ensemble print entitled "Thanksgiving," in "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion", November 27, 1852. Ph. Lab. neg. no. 68-12-237.