A Home in the Country (Summer)
A Home in the Country (Summer)
- Description (Brief)
- Colored print of a rural home in summer, with other houses and a church in the background. A group of children swing on a gate at right. A boy and girl appear below a large tree near a well at center, with the boy lifting a bucket from the well. Men, women and children stroll and/or ride along a lane at left. Two verses from "The Old Oaken Bucket" appear beneath the image.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- date made
- ca 1866
- publisher
- Spence, R. S.
- maker
- Robertson, William C.
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 17 1/4 in x 25 in; 43.815 cm x 63.5 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2644
- catalog number
- 60.2644
- accession number
- 228146
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Horses
- Pets
- Children
- Architecture
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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