The Old Bachelor.

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

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

PublisherPublished by Ensign & Thayer (American, 1849 - 1850)

Date1848-1850

MediumLithography; printer's ink and watercolor on wove paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 12 5/16 x 9 3/16in. (31.3 x 23.3cm) Sheet (height x width): 15 1/16 x 11 3/4in. (38.3 x 29.8cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number1994.36.2

DescriptionThree-quarter-length frontal portrait of a man wearing a heavy woolen coat and a stocking cap with a tassel. His left hand rests on a thick wooden beam serving as a counter or a table. In his right hand, he holds a fork with a sausage on the end of it. His face is contorted in a grimace, possibly intended as a smile. One of his upper teeth is missing. A brazier full of coals rests on the beam. A second sausage is balanced on a pair of tongs which lie across the top of the brazier. A thick wedge of bread, or possibly cheese, lies on the beam at the left. Drapery is in the right background.

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