New-Year's Present to a Bachelor by Thomas Strong
date: label: date made
content: ca 1843
name: label: maker
content: Strong, Thomas W.
notes: label: Description
content: This hand-colored print depicts an interior scene of an unmarried man opening a large basket that contains two infants. The man wears a long coat, vest, high collar, bow tie and plaid trousers. An unopened letter lies on the floor near the basket. He has a look of dismay as he peers down on the unruly infants and realizes his responsibilities for the babies. A family of four looks on gleefully through a door in the background. Also in the background are a picture on the wall of a man on horseback, flowered wallpaper, and a patterned rug.
label: Description
content: Thomas W. Strong, a wood engraver and lithographer who worked in New York City from 1842-1851 produced this print. After 1851 he was listed as a publisher. Strong's prints included commentaries on social and moral themes as well as cartoons and funny valentines.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Courtship, love
label: Subject
content: Communication, letter writing
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content: Furnishings
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content: Comic prints
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content: Children
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content: Toys
label: Subject
content: Holidays and Celebrations, general
label: Subject
content: Hunting
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Morality & Religious Prints
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Peters, Harry T.. America on Stone
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.60.2300
label: catalog number
content: 60.2300
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: hand-colored (image production method/technique)
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content: ink (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 11 1/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 28.575 cm x 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 12 in; 40.64 cm x 30.48 cm