The Farmers Pets.

PrinterPrinted by Kelloggs & Comstock (American, 1848 - 1850)

PublisherPublished by Kelloggs & Comstock (American, 1848 - 1850)

Date1848-1850

MediumLithography; printer's ink and watercolor on wove paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 8 x 12 5/16in. (20.3 x 31.3cm) Sheet (height x width): 10 1/16 x 14 1/8in. (25.6 x 35.9cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Samuel St. John Morgan

Object number1957.65.29

DescriptionScene in a farmyard with four men, a woman, a girl, and over twenty-five animals. On the left, a man wearing a long jacket or smock and a cap pours water from a wooden bucket into a watering trough made from a log. A well with a wellsweep is immediately to the left. Three cows and a calf stand nearby. Ducks swim in a pond in the left foreground. A turkey and chickens approach a girl and a woman who appear to be feeding them. A dog, a rooster, another chicken, and a wheelbarrow are at the right. Behind them, a man uses a brush or curry comb to curry a horse wearing a halter. Another man, wearing a suit and a top hat and holding a coil of rope, stands in the door of a thatch-roofed barn. Another man leads another horse out a barn door in the background. A cart loaded with hay is immediately behind, near a dog, a dog house, and a large birdhouse or dovecote with doves or pigeons flying around it. A board fence with a picket gate is in the background. An outbuilding, probably a shed, a ladder, a barrel, a pile of hay, more chickens, and pigs are in the left background.

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