The Old Oaken Bucket
date: label: date made
content: ca 1854
name: label: distributor
content: Ensign, Thayer and Company
label: lithographer
content: Kellogg, Elijah Chapman
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 hand colored print is of a boy using an oaken bucket to drink from a well. He is accompanied by two dogs. His hat, jacket, and fishing pole are strewn about on the ground and he is shoeless. A house with two figures on the porch, a fence and a wooded landscape are in the background.
label: Description
content: The lithographer Elijah Chapman Kellogg (1811–1881) was the youngest of the four Kellogg brothers, all of whom were lithographers. The brothers were born in Tolland, Connecticut, a small town located near Hartford, where the family business was established. E.C. Kellogg was the only brother among the Kelloggs to receive his professional training in Hartford, Ct. In 1840, Elijah Chapman Kellogg, along with his brother Edmund Burke Kellogg, took over the D.W. Kellogg & Co. after older brother Daniel Wright Kellogg moved west. Elijah and Edmund were responsible for most of the company’s partnerships. Elijah Chapman Kellogg retired in 1867.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
topic: label: Subject
content: Pets
label: Subject
content: Architecture, Domestic Buildings
label: depicted
content: Dogs
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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.60.2368
label: catalog number
content: 60.2368
label: accession number
content: 228146
label: maker number
content: 458
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 in x 8 1/2 in; 30.48 cm x 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 10 in; 35.56 cm x 25.4 cm