My Dear, I Love the Gold, But Oh! How Much, I Love You Better
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860s
name: label: maker
content: Belan, J.
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 man standing by a table with a woman who is seated opposite him in a chair. A draped window.is in the background. A box of gold coins and piles of coins are on the table. Other furnishings depicted include an upholstered chair and patterned carpet. Outside the window is a fountain and small building.
label: Description
content: The print was produced by a J Belan or according to Peters possibly a J. Belony from New York City.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: World
topic: label: Subject
content: Courtship, love
label: Subject
content: Furnishings
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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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: Welsh, Peter C. and Caroline. The Genteel Female
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.60.2249
label: catalog number
content: 60.2249
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: hand-colored (image production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 11 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in; 29.21 cm x 20.955 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 10 in; 35.56 cm x 25.4 cm