Temperance Banner: Love, Purity, Fidelity by Kelloggs & Comstock
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1850
name: label: distributors
content: Ensign, Thayer and Company
label: maker
content: Kelloggs & Comstock
notes: label: Description
content: This hand-colored print of an outdoor scene depicts two women standing on either side of a young man. The woman on the right is dressed in red, holding the young man's arm, and appears to be tempting him with a glass of wine. A snake or serpent emerges from a pot on the right, behind the woman in red reinforcing the image of the woman in red as aligned with evil. The young man holds a water goblet in his right hand while a young woman in white looks on from the left side of the print. The scene is enclosed in a Gothic border, produced during the Gothic Revival period, and has a banner below the image that proclaims “Love, Purity, & Fidelity.”
label: Description
content: This print was produced by the lithographic firm of Kelloggs & Comstock in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1848, John Chenevard Comstock (1818-1862) formed a partnership with E.B. and E.C. Kellogg. In 1850, Edmund Burke Kellogg (1809-1872) left the firm, leaving his brother Elijah Chapman Kellogg (1811-1881) and J.C. Comstock to run the lithography firm as Kellogg and Comstock. The short-lived partnership disbanded in 1851. It was not until 1855 that Edmund Burke Kellogg rejoined his brother E.C. Kellogg and continued the successful operation of the family’s lithography firm. The print was distributed by D. Needham of New York City. Nathaniel Currier produced a similar print.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
topic: label: Subject
content: Costume
label: Subject
content: Courtship, love
label: Subject
content: Drinking
label: Subject
content: Flowers
label: Subject
content: Fraternal Associations
label: Subject
content: Temperance
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Family & Social 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.60.2949
label: catalog number
content: 60.2949
label: accession number
content: 228146
label: maker number
content: 363
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: Physical Description
content: hand-colored (image production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: image: 13 in x 9 in; 33.02 cm x 22.86 cm