The Lovers.

PrinterPrinted by D. W. Kellogg & Co. American, 1830 - 1840

PublisherPublished by D. W. Kellogg & Co. American, 1830 - 1840

Date1830-1840

MediumLithography; printer's ink and watercolor on wove paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 14 1/16 x 10 5/8in. (35.7 x 27cm)
Sheet (height x width): 15 15/16 x 11in. (40.5 x 27.9cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineGift of Samuel St. John Morgan

DescriptionA man and a woman are seated under a tree in a pastoral landscape. Both wear classical dress, including sandals. The woman's arms are around the man's neck and the man's left hand rests on the woman's back. With a stylus in his right hand, he has just finished carving the name "ANGELIQUE" into the bark of a tree. Four sheep are at the left. Additional trees, bushes, a lake, and a distant mountain are in the background.

Object number1950.151.0

InscribedOn recto, lithographed title beneath image, "THE LOVERS."

On verso, inscribed in purple ink, upper left, "951". Inscribed in pencil: lower left, "Print / Box 5 / #46"; lower right, "consv CPC 1987" "Dwr 15". Accession number inscribed in blue pencil, lower right. Part of an illegible and incomplete inscription in brown ink is partially visible on the lower margin: "P.... agea...?"

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