Mortgaging the Farm by Pendleton's Lithography
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1830
name: label: maker
content: Pendleton's Lithography
notes: label: Description
content: This black and white print depicts a farmer stopping for a drink at an establishment "licensed to retail spirits." He is offering a paper, presumably the mortgage for his farm, in payment of the alcohol. A hay wagon pulled by oxen waits in the road. A distillery is visible in the background with a cross above its chimney indicating its priority to serious drinkers. A verse describing the evils of drink appears below the title. In the companion print, <i> Lifting the Mortgage </i> (DL.60.2983), the farmer redeems himself by signing a temperance pledge.
label: Description
content: This print was produced by Pendleton's Lithography. John B. Pendleton (1798-1866) was one of America's earliest lithographers. Along with his brother William Pendleton (1795-1879), he started a lithograph printing house in Boston in 1825. The firm printed portraits, landscapes, sheet music covers, and other illustrations. Not long after it opened in Boston, the Pendleton brothers moved their lithograph business to New York City. In 1829 or 1830, John B. Pendleton moved to Philadelphia and briefly operated the firm Pendleton, Kearny, & Childs with Francis Kearny (1785-1837) and Cephas G. Childs (1793-1888). Pendleton then worked as a carpenter and proprietor of a planning mill until 1851.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Drinking
label: Subject
content: Livestock
label: Subject
content: Economy
label: Subject
content: Wagons
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Temperance Movement
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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.60.2982
label: catalog number
content: 60.2982
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: 6 1/2 in x 9 in; 16.51 cm x 22.86 cm