Details
Creator Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909.
Title The delusion. [graphic] / Photographed and published by B. W. Kilburn.
Publisher Littleton, N.H.: B. W. Kilburn
Publisher NH. Littleton. 1892
Date c1892
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Genre scene in a semi-dilapidated setting showing an older couple and younger couple near a stove covered in pots and a kitchen table adorned with a bottle, pitcher, and cup. The older woman sits near the table and sews as her husband sleeps in a rocker near the stove, with his pipe in his mouth, and a newspaper in his lap. The younger couple stand and cuddle in the background, possibly the "delusion" of the husband.
Notes Photographer's imprint printed on verso.
Warped pink mount with rounded corners.
Negative number printed on mount: 7521.
Gift of Jesse Randall.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Kilburn, successor to stereograph publisher Kilburn Brothers in 1877, broadened the firm's portfolio from White Mountain scenery to include genre and comic subjects and international views.
Subject Spouses.
Couples.
Delusions.
Kitchens.
Genre Stereographs -- 1890-1900.
Albumen prints -- 1890-1900.
Genre photographs -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Kilburn - Genre [P.2005.19.7]
Accession number P.2005.19.7