Fetching the Old Mare Home
date: label: date made
content: 1856-1864
name: label: maker
content: Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm
label: maker
content: Bufford, John Henry
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 is of a woman with a child leading a white horse by its ear down a road. The woman carries a large pan or sieve and is wearing a jacket and apron over a simple dress and a kerchief on her head. The road they are walking on is bordered by a split rail fence.
label: Description
content: John Henry Bufford produced the lithograph and published the print from the original painting by Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl. Frederick or Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl (1823-1873) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He trained in Brussels and England and became a well known painter of animal scene. He died December 5, 1873 in London and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. The printer/publisher John Henry Bufford (1810-1870), was from Portsmouth, Massachusetts. Prior to moving to New York in 1835, Bufford apprenticed under William S. Pendleton. In New York, he worked for George Endicott and later Nathaniel Currier. In 1840, Bufford moved back to Boston and started work for another lithography firm. By 1844 the firm and shop name had changed to J.H. Bufford & Co. In 1867 Bufford became the manager of the New England Steam Lithographic Printing Company. He died three years later in Boston.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Children
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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
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.60.2369
label: catalog number
content: 60.2369
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 11 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 10 in; 35.56 cm x 25.4 cm