Details
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.
Notes Inscribed lower left corner: 121.
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.
Flowers.
Seasons.
Women.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1850-1860.
Allegorical prints -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.70]
Accession number P.9349.70