Three Member's of the Temperance Society by Elijah Chapman Kellogg
date: label: Date made
content: 1850-1851
name: label: distributor
content: Ensign, Thayer and Company
label: maker
content: Kellogg, Elijah Chapman
notes: label: Description
content: This hand colored lithographic print depicts the heads of three horses drinking at a water trough. The horse on the far left has his mouth in the water. The two horses on the right have raised their heads, and water drips from their mouths in a thin stream. Water flows into the trough from a stone or clay pipe on the left. A vine is on the left and a branch with leaves is in the right foreground.
label: Description
content: The print is a copy based on an 1847 painting by John Frederick Herring Sr., which hangs in the Tate Gallery. The original painting was so popular that it was widely reproduced as a print (lithographs and engravings). The Kellogg version may have been inspired by the "Cold Water Army" a children's group who pledged to drink large quantities of cold water instead of alcohol and who were sponsored by the Connecticut Temperance Society, which was based in Hartford with the Kellogg family of lithographers and publishers. The image is also known to have been used as a basis for the children's story about the dangers of consuming alcohol. By 1917, the image was promoted as a picture for use "in schools and for schoolroom decoration."
label: Description
content: This print was produced by lithographer Elijah Chapman Kellogg (1811-1881). He 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 where the family business was established in Hartford. E.C. Kellogg was the only brother among the Kelloggs to receive his professional training in Hartford. In 1840, Elijah Chapman Kellogg, along with his brother Edmund Burke Kellogg (1809-1872), took over the D. W. Kellogg & Co. after Daniel Wright Kellogg (1807-1874), its founder, moved west. Elijah and Edmund Kellogg were responsible for most of the company’s future partnerships. Elijah Chapman Kellogg retired in 1867.
label: Description
content: The original artist, John Frederick Herring (1795-1865) was a stage driver and painter known for attending horse races and specializing in painting horses in England.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
topic: label: Subject
content: Drinking
label: Subject
content: Horses
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic 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.60.3609
label: catalog number
content: 60.3609
label: maker number
content: 460
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 8 in x 12 in; 20.32 cm x 30.48 cm