The Prodigal Son in Misery by D.W. Kellogg and Company
National Museum of American History

The Prodigal Son in Misery by D.W. Kellogg and Company

D.W. Kellogg and Company · ca 1838

paper (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

This hand colored print depicts a man dressed in ragged clothes seated in a farmyard tending four pigs that are eating. As the subtitle explains, “He would have filled his belly with the Husks that the swine did not eat.”

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