The Good Tree or Hieroglyphics of a Christian by E.B. and E.C. Kellogg
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1846
name: label: agent
content: Needham, D.
label: distributor; publisher
content: Kelloggs & Thayer
label: lithographer
content: E.B. and E.C. Kellogg
label: maker
content: Kellogg, E.B. and E.C.
notes: label: Description
content: This hand colored print depicts a tree labeled "Hope" and "Love" growing from soil marked "Faith" and "Repentance". Above the tree the word "Grace" appears. There are two angels at the foot of the tree. One is pushing away the devil who carries an axe; the other is watering the tree from a watering can. The tree bears fruit labeled with various Christian virtues such as justice, chastity, goodness, industry, purity and so forth. The inscription below the image explains its Biblical inspiration is Psalm 1, Verse 3: “And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season.”
label: Description
content: This print was based on a 1791 print, <i>The Tree of Life</i> by John Hagerty. It was produced by the lithographic firm E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. Edmund Burke Kellogg (1809-1872) and Elijah Chapman Kellogg (1811-1881) were brothers of the founder of the Kellogg lithography firm, Daniel Wright Kellogg (1807-1874). After D.W. Kellogg moved west, his two brothers took over the family lithography firm in 1840 and changed the name to E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. The younger two of the four Kellogg brothers, they were responsible for the continued success of the family firm. These two brothers were also involved in the eventual partnerships between the company and Horace Thayer in 1845 or 1846, John Chenevard Comstock (1818-1862) in 1848 and William Henry Bulkeley (1840-1902) in 1867.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
topic: label: Subject
content: Costume
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Religion
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Morality & Religious Prints
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.60.2919
label: catalog number
content: 60.2919
label: accession number
content: 228146
label: maker number
content: 124
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: 12 7/8 in x 9 1/2 in; 32.7025 cm x 24.13 cm