Details
Creator Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist.
Contributor American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Title The industrious man [graphic] : It is Saturday night. The industrious man returns home from his labour in peace-He is welcome to an humble home-Pleasant smiles and happy voices greet him. Let him fear and serve God will bless him and his household for ever / M.H.T.
Publisher [Philadelphia: American S.S. Union, 146 Chestnut St]
Date [ca. 1849]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 24 x 31 cm. (9.25 x 12.25 in.)
Description Shows a man returning to his quaint home and family convened around the dining table after a day of work. He enters the door with a lunch pail in his hand and greets his son who runs to him. In front of the table, laid out with a pot of tea, an older daughter uses a plate of water to bathe her younger sister who has been stripped to her waist. At the end of the table, the mother holds a baby at her bosom. Nearby, the family cat sits in front of the stove slightly visible in the right of the image.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
pdcp00026
Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853).
Manuscript note on verso: James L. & Isaac W. Morris from Aunt Sarah [Pitrom’s?] Christmas 1849
Accompanied by text titled "Welcome Home" moralizing that a happy home stems from a strong work ethic by the "honest laborer" who is one of the "noblest of men."
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 117
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union
Subject Children -- Conduct of life.
Families.
Domestic life.
Work ethic.
Contentment.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Genre prints -- 1840-1850.
Printer American Sunday-School Union, publisher.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Picture Collection. FLP| FLP Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union