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

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.

Object number1994.36.2

InscribedOn recto, lithographed title beneath image, "THE OLD BACHELOR. / 252." Lower margin, in pencil, "I should like to marry if that I could find / A Handsome Old Maid with a [illegible]".

On verso, in pencil: upper left, "4.50"; upper center, "C [underlined]"; lower left, "2308" "a88693" and accession number.

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