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: chromolithograph; 35 x 46 cm. (13.5 x 18 in.) |
Description |
Border frames unprinted area and includes allegorical vignettes representing summer, fall, winter, and spring interspersed
among floral details. Shows summer as a female figure holding a cornucopia and flanked by a cherubic-like figure holding a
bundle of wheat; fall as male and female figures holding a basket of fruit, a goblet, and a baton adorned with a pine cone;
winter as an older, bearded male blowing wind from his mouth accompanied by an older female figure in a hooded robe; and summer
as a near nude male figure holding a wreath of flowers beside a female figure in Roman garb on whose finger a bird is perched.
Vignettes also include a ribbon pictorial detail that envelopes the figures. Unprinted area contains glue residue.
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Notes |
Inscribed lower left corner: 121. |
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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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Flowers. |
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Seasons. |
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Women. |
Genre |
Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860. |
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Allegorical prints -- 1850-1860. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.70] |
Accession number |
P.9349.70 |