The Maiden's Choice.

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

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

Date1830-1840

MediumLithography; printer's ink on wove paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 9 13/16 x 7 7/8in. (24.9 x 20cm)
Sheet (height x width): 15 x 10in. (38.1 x 25.4cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineMuseum purchase

DescriptionThree-quarter-length view of a young man standing in the interior of a room, probably a parlor. He wears a coat, vest, necktie, and trousers. He has a flower, probably a rose, in his buttonhole, and holds a pocket watch on a long chain in his right hand. His top hat, scarf, gloves, and walking stick are on a table covered with a patterned tablecloth at the left. Drapery with a cord and tassel is in the left background. A chair, a sea shell, and a vase on a shelf or mantle, and a framed picture or mirror are in the right background.

Object number1982.10.9

InscribedOn recto, lithographed title and poem beneath image, "THE MAIDEN'S CHOICE. / Genteel in personage, / Conduct, and equipage, / Noble by heritage, / Generous and free; / Brave, not romantic, / Learn'd, not pedantic, / Frolic, not frantic, / This must he be. / Honour maintaining, / Meanness disdaining, / Still entertaining, / Engaging and new; / Neat, but not finical, / Sage but not cynical, / Never tyrannical / But [sic]".

On verso, inscribed in pencil: center, "10 by 15"; upper left, "#49"; lower right, "Drawer 15" and accession number.NotesTitle Note: The poem, "The Maiden's Choice," appeared in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Vol. 12, No. 331 (September 13, 1828), attributed to an "Old MS." The concluding line, lacking in the inscription on the Kellogg print, reads "But ever true." (Finlay 8/17/2006)

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