The New Postmistress

Cutter #4; no repairs needed; 21 figure pieces, color line cut, semi interlocking with curl knob style
Note only female in scene is Mother dragging son away as men ogle new postmistress!

The print artist is New York illustrator and landscape painter John Newton Howitt (1885-1958). His is the classic case of an artist torn between the divergent worlds of commercial and fine art and between what he considered the higher and lower levels of commercial illustration.