Details
Title Album [graphic].
Publisher 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 volume (19 prints): hand-colored lithographs, tinted with one stone; album 22 x 33 cm. (8.75 x 13 in.)
Description Album of genre scenes depicting European life in the country. Several contain children and animals, who are often in rural and buccolic settings. Includes plate 19 showing a Gypsy boy, with a monkey on his shoulder, and accompanied by two dogs walking past a farm; plate 20 showing a figurine peddler dropping his wares when frightened by a mother dog protecting her pups at a rustic family homestead; plate 3 depicting a woman, a rifle over her shoulder, guiding the horse of a Zouave soldier away from his fellow troops; plate 2 depicting a woman, with a book, possibly a Bible under her arm, walking with two boys past two men working in their garden; plate 5 showing a family in a canoe fishing with a net; plate 6 showing young hunters stealing the game of their napping companion; plate 7 depicting a young farm girl asleep near a picnic basket and a dog while her elders build hay huts in the background; plate 8 depicting a gypsy violinist with his dog near a stone wall and under the gaze of a barefoot peasant boy and girl; plate 9 showing a girl wading near an unhappy duck family in a river below a mountain range accompanied by a young male companion seated on the shore; plate 10 showing two young farm women attending to rabbits in the doorway of a hutch; plate 11 showing a peasant woman, carrying a bundle of wheat, and with a girl on a dirt road who watch a man, with a specimen box, seated near his net and holding a snake; plate 12 showing a wife in traditional costume leading a mule carrying her peasant husband and their child and a large bundle; plate 13 showing a father and his two young girls ice fishing with their dog and a picnic basket; plate 14 showing two girls gathering fire wood near a frozen river and with their dog; and plate 14 showing a girl making a floral wreath near another girl petting a dog attended by a boy on a hillside below a castle-like structure.
Also includes plate 16 showing a toddler boy in a gown and socks walking to his mother seated next to his father in their rustic home; plate 17 depicting an older peasant boy and young woman attempting to wake a peasant girl sleeping on a hay bale in a farm field; an unnumbered plate showing an older boy disrobing for a swim beside a dog and a younger boy leaning on a pier near the ocean; and plate 4 showing a girl standing near a boy petting a dog laying near a tree on which a hunter's bag, rifle, and cap hang.
Notes Inscribed on front free endpaper: Maggie A. Fleming, June 1850.
Title stamped on front cover.
Green morrocco binding.
Plate numbers printed in upper right corner of all, except one print. Bound out of order.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Forms part of Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection.
Gift of Helen Beitler and the estate of Helen Beitler.
Subject Animals.
Children.
Country life.
Families.
Farms.
Farm life.
Fishing.
Hunting.
Sleeping.
Zouaves.
Geographic subject Europe -- Pictorial works.
Genre Albums -- 1840-1850.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- Tinted -- 1840-1850.
Genre prints -- 1840-1850.
Morocco bindings (Binding).
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - album [9475.F]
Accession number 9475.F