Beware

Following Millet’s graduation from Harvard in 1869 he went to work at the Boston Daily Advertiser and a few other publications.  During his career he often illustrated his own articles for the newspapers and magazines he wrote for.  It is not surprising that he early on in 1870 did several lithographs, drawings on stone, that have survived.  Millet’s lithograph Beware, is one such lithograph. It is possible that this lithograph was substantially copied from a popular German image. It also  during this time that Millet studied with Dominique Fabronius, a well known lithographer and Millet’s known lithographs show his talent and training in this medium, even so early in his career.