Details
Contributor Hoover, Joseph, publisher.
Title Summer scene in the country. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Pub. by Jos. Hoover 804 Market St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date [ca. 1868]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 48 x 64 cm. (19 x 25 in.)
Description Genre print depicting a scene of leisure in front of a large Victorian-era, Italianate home and garden enclosed by a stone and iron-work fence. In the foreground, an elegantly-attired couple (the woman on sidesaddle) rides on horseback on a dirt road, while within the fenced grounds, a woman in wide-brimmed hat tends a rose garden across from a young girl petting a sheep. In the background, a man stands at the main entrance and a woman on a side porch of the house and look toward the couple in the road. In the far left, a man grooms a horse in front of a small stable and near a flock of chickens. The dirt road winds its way past grazing cattle, shrubbery and other homes, toward a body of water in the distance. Sailboats are visible on the water in the right background.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Joseph Hoover, a prolific producer of chromolithographed parlor prints, located to 804 Market Street in 1864.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 245
Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2642]
Digital image shows Smithsonian copy. LCP copy acquired after 2010.
Subject Chickens.
Estates.
Country life.
Couples.
Gardening.
Horse grooms.
Horseback riding.
Leisure.
Sheep.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870.
Genre prints -- 1860-1870.
Printer Hoover, Joseph, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **GC - Genre [P.2013.22]
Smithsonian Institution| NMAH Home and Community Life Collection| SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2642]
Accession number P.2013.22