Love Expedient.

PrinterPrinted by E.C. Kellogg & Co. American, 1851 - 1854

PublisherPublished by E.C. Kellogg & Co. American, 1851 - 1854

PublisherPublished by Horace Thayer & Co. American, 1852

Date1852-1853

MediumLithography; printer's ink and watercolor on wove paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 11 7/8 x 8 5/8in. (30.2 x 21.9cm)
Sheet (height x width): 14 x 10in. (35.6 x 25.4cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineGift of Dr. James C. Bonnette

DescriptionA young man kisses a young woman while she presses straw hats down over the faces of two young children in her charge. The man wears a coat and straw hat. He has sideburns. The woman wears a dress, a shawl, a necklace with a cross, and a bonnet trimmed with flowers and ribbons. The children, who are either two girls or a little girl and a little boy, both wear short skirts and have bags attached at their waists. One child appears to wear a chemise or slip with eyelet trim. The other wears pantaloons with eyelet trim. The couple stand in a grassy field or lane with a rail fence and bushes behind them. The steeple of a church is in the left background.

Object number2005.177.36

MarkingsOn verso, on gummed label, in red ink, "2/ 4BA / 25 / 2.50"InscribedOn recto, lithographed title beneath image, "LOVE EXPEDIENT. / Pretty Governess. Children, how often must I tell you how to wear your hats? You are provokingly slow to / learn! This is the third time, within an hour, that I have placed your hats properly upon your heads. There!! / 21".

On verso, lower right, in pencil, accession number

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