Junggesellen - Leiden or Bachelor from Leiden
date: label: date made
content: n.d.
label: date made
content: ca 1840
name: label: printer
content: Hesse, Johann Friederich
label: publisher
content: Zawitz, W.
notes: label: Description
content: Sentimental genre prints documented the social image of Victorian virtue through domestic scenes of courtship, family, home life, and images of the “genteel female.” Children are depicted studying nature or caring for their obedient pets as they learn their place in the greater world. Romantic scenes picture devoted husbands with their contented, dutiful wives. In these prints, young women educated in reading, music, needlework, the arts, the language of flowers, basic math and science are subjugated to their family’s needs.
label: Description
content: These prints became popular as lithography was introduced to 19th Century Americans. As a new art form, it was affordable for the masses and provided a means to share visual information by crossing the barriers of race, class and language. Sentimental prints encouraged the artistic endeavors of schoolgirls and promoted the ambitions of amateur artists, while serving as both moral instruction and home or business decoration. They are a pictorial record of our romanticized past.
label: Description
content: This colored print depicts a man in tattered clothing and hat trying to thread a needle. He is seated in a cluttered, decrepit cottage with exposed ceiling beams. Next to him is a candlestick holder and lantern. There are jugs, baskets, pots, cups, fruit and shoes scattered around the room. The English traslation of the German title is the "Joys of Matrimony."
label: Description
content: Johann Friederich Hesse was an artist, lithographer & printer active in Berlin 1838-1870. He produced popular prints of Martin Luther and genre drawings and worked with publisher W. Zawitz.
label: Description
content: W. Zawitz was a publisher of books, lithographs, and maps in Germany ca 1840-1870.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
topic: label: Subject
content: Drinking
label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Costume
label: Subject
content: Furnishings
label: Subject
content: Sewing and Knitting
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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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.60.2296
label: catalog number
content: 60.2296
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)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 13 in x 10 in; 33.02 cm x 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/2 in x 12 in; 41.91 cm x 30.48 cm