Central Park, N.Y. Preparing for a Drive
Central Park, N.Y. Preparing for a Drive
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- Description (Brief)
- Colored print; outdoor scene of a woman and two children near a lake. The boy is harnessing a goat to a small carriage in which the girl, who is holding a whip, is sitting. The woman, who is seated on a stone balustrade, supervises from the right. Swans and a boat appear on the lake in the background.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- chromolithograph
- Object Type
- Chromolithograph
- date made
- 1874
- maker
- Schile, Henry
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 18 in x 24 1/2 in; 45.72 cm x 62.23 cm
- overall: 22 1/4 in x 28 in; 56.515 cm x 71.12 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2466
- catalog number
- 60.2466
- accession number
- 228146
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Carriages
- Pets
- Architecture, Domestic Buildings
- Children
- Birds
- Bridges
- Chronology: 1870-1879
- Parks, public
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Clothing & Accessories
- Domestic Furnishings
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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