CDV - The Dreaming Iolanthe, A Study in Butter

Caroline S. Brooks, 1876. Image depicts the Dreaming Iolanthe, King, Rene's Daughter, by Henrich Herz. A study in butter by Caroline S. Brooks, daughert of Abel Shawk. The tools used were a common butter paddle, cedar sticks, broom straws, and camel's hair pencil. May have been created for the Centennial as 1776 and 1876 at noted at the top of description on reverse. Abel Shawk, Alexander Bonner Latta, and Greenwood, began construction of the world's first practical steam-powered fire engine. (Cincinnati OH).