Puppies
Maker
Unknown, American
Additional Title(s)
- Stenciled Drawing of Two Puppies
Collections
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Date1846-1847
Mediumwatercolor on paper
Dimensionsframe: 11 × 14 × 1 in. (27.9 × 35.6 × 2.5 cm.)
DescriptionStenciled drawing of two puppies with free-hand details in original blue and mustard split-spindle frame; New England.
Credit LineJonathan and Karin Fielding Collection
Label TextThis charming, sentimental watercolor, probably made by a New England schoolgirl, was copied from one of 19th-century America's most popular mass-produced prints, Two Puppies, designed by James Herring and Peter Maverick and first issued in the late 1820s. The print was reissued in the 1830s by the Connecticut lithography firm of D. W. Kellogg & Company, which produced a second version, in reverse of the original, in the 1840s - the version copied here. The watercolorist has made numerous additions, including a factory building in the background, a fence, and trees whose diminutive scale renders the puppies as giants, and a fanciful rosebush.Status
On viewObject numberL2015.41.156
