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[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.
Notes
Inscribed upper left corner: 56.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Fall.
Spring.
Summer.
Winter.
Landscapes (Representations)
Seasons.
Women.
Genre
Chromolithographs -- Hand colored -- 1850-1860.
Allegorical prints -- 1850-1860.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.38b]
Accession number
P.9349.38b
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