The Life & Age of Woman
The Life & Age of Woman
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- Description
- Colored print depicting a female at different stages from infancy to old age. The figures are depicted on ascending steps to middle age and then descend with old age being the lowest to the right. There are verses beneath each figure and vignettes that symbolize various stages of life. A small vignette of two people standing beside a man digging three graves is in the center foreground.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Date made
- 1848
- maker
- Baillie, James S.
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- ink (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 8 in x 12 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 31.75 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2936
- catalog number
- 60.2936
- accession number
- 228146
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Chronology: 1840-1849
- Marriage
- Children
- Flowers
- Adornment
- Civic Associations
- Toys
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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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