Title |
[Print with ornate border containing vignettes representing the seasons] [graphic]. |
Publisher |
[United States] |
Publisher |
UNITED STATES. 1855 |
Date |
[ca. 1855] |
Physical Description |
1 print: hand-colored chromolithograph; 26 x 33 cm. (10.25 x 13 in.) |
Description |
Border frames unprinted area and includes allegorical figures representing summer, fall, winter, and spring. Shows summer
as young peasant girl lying on a pile of hay and holding a sickle; fall as a peasant lad holding a bottle of wine and a goblet;
winter as an older woman, attired in kerchief, overcoat, and hand muff seated in front of a tree; and spring as a partially-draped,
nudewoman placing flowers in her hair. Also contains pictorial details depicting flower bushes, grape vines, shrubbery, and
clusters of fall fruits and winter and summer landscape views. Unprinted area contains glue residue.
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Notes |
Inscribed upper left corner: 56. |
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Title supplied by cataloger. |
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
Subject |
Fall. |
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Spring. |
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Summer. |
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Winter. |
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Landscapes (Representations) |
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Seasons. |
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Women. |
Genre |
Chromolithographs -- Hand colored -- 1850-1860. |
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Allegorical prints -- 1850-1860. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.38b] |
Accession number |
P.9349.38b |