Baptising Scene by Endicott & Swett
date: label: Date made
content: 1834
name: label: publisher
content: Van Valkenburgh, James
label: maker
content: Endicott & Swett
notes: label: Description
content: This exceptional colored print depicts a woman being baptized by a minister in the Hudson River, north of Manhattan. A large group of well-dressed, white Protestant parishioners are watching from the riverbank and a nearby dock. Three black children stand clustered together in the center foreground.
label: Description
content: Roman Catholics view baptism as an essential sacrament to be performed as soon as possible after a child's birth. Some Protestants, by contrast, perform baptisms later as a conscious desire to receive God's word and commit to a faith so some Protestant churches wait to baptize members as older children or as adults as well as baptizing new members or converted adults. This print depicts baptism as a ceremony in which a person officially associates herself with the community of believers.
label: Description
content: This print was produced by Endicott & Swett. George Endicott (1802-1848) was born in Canton, Massachusetts. During the 1820s, prior to his partnership with Moses Swett, he worked as an ornamental painter in Baltimore, Maryland. His partner Moses Swett (1804-1838) was born in Poland. He worked for the Pendleton lithography firm as an artist and draftsman from 1826 to 1828. The partnership Endicott & Swett began in 1830 in Baltimore. Shortly after establishing their business, the two partners moved to New York. In July of 1834 the partnership dissolved, and Swett continued to work on his own in New York from 1834-1837. Endicott stayed on as the head of the company until his death in 1848. His younger brother William Endicott (1816-1851) then took over. After William Endicott died in 1851 his son and wife ran the business as Endicott & Company until 1886.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1830-1839
label: Subject
content: Blacks
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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: Domestic Furnishings
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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.60.2973
label: catalog number
content: 60.2973
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: 9 in x 12 in; 22.86 cm x 30.48 cm