Children in the Wood
date: label: Date made
content: n.d.
name: label: maker
content: Metropolitan Printing Company
label: maker
content: Rothengatter
notes: label: Description
content: This colored print depicts a boy and girl sleeping in a dense, dark forest. They are dressed in Renaissance-era clothing and there is a dream-like quality to the scene. There are squirrels and birds in the trees and fairies dance in a grove in the background. The title is overprinted at the top.
label: Description
content: The poster is a reference to the late 18th Century opera in two acts entitled <i>The Children in the Wood</i>. It was composed by Samuel Arnold (1740-1802) with a libretto by Thomas Morton (1764-1838). It was first performed in London at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1793. The story is loosely based on Hansel and Gretel and sometimes called “Babes in the Woods” a ballad which was first printed by Thomas Millington in 1595.
label: Description
content: This lithograph was printed by the Metropolitan Printing Company and by E. Rothengatter. Emil Rothengatter (1848-1939) was a German-born artist and designer of circus posters who worked in cities including Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1896, he won a contest to design the flag of Cincinnati for a work he called “Zero of Burnet Woods.” However, controversy over whether Cincinnati should have a flag delayed the design’s formal adoption until 1940. Emil Rothengatter also wrote a book entitled <i> Art of Poster Making in the United States</i>, published in 1911. He died in New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Costume
label: Subject
content: Wild Animals
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Theater
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Advertising
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3036
label: catalog number
content: 60.3036
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 19 in x 16 in; 48.26 cm x 40.64 cm