The Canary Bird
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Kellogg"], "topic": ["Art", "Animals", "Adornment", "Peters Prints", "Birds", "Flowers", "Furnishings"], "place": ["United States", "Connecticut", "Hartford"], "online_media_type": ["Images"]}, "freetext": {"setName": [{"label": "See more items in", "content": "Home and Community Life: Domestic Life"}, {"label": "See more items in", "content": "Art"}, {"label": "See more items in", "content": "Peters Prints"}, {"label": "See more items in", "content": "Domestic Furnishings"}], "date": [{"label": "date made", "content": "1843-1852"}], "identifier": [{"label": "ID Number", "content": "DL.60.2319"}, {"label": "catalog number", "content": "60.2319"}, {"label": "accession number", "content": "228146"}], "notes": [{"label": "Description", "content": "Sentimental genre prints documented the social image of Victorian virtue through domestic scenes of courtship, family, home life, and images of the \u00e2\u0080\u009cgenteel female.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Children are depicted studying nature or caring for their obedient pets as they learn their place in the greater world. Romantic scenes picture devoted husbands with their contented, dutiful wives. In these prints, young women educated in reading, music, needlework, the arts, the language of flowers, basic math and science are subjugated to their family\u00e2\u0080\u0099s needs."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "These prints became popular as lithography was introduced to 19th Century Americans. As a new art form, it was affordable for the masses and provided a means to share visual information by crossing the barriers of race, class and language. Sentimental prints encouraged the artistic endeavors of schoolgirls and promoted the ambitions of amateur artists, while serving as both moral instruction and home or business decoration. They are a pictorial record of our romanticized past."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "This three-quarter length hand colored print is of a young woman standing on a balcony behind a balustrade. She is feeding a caged canary. Beneath the bird cage and behind the woman there are flowers in a flower pot. The background is decorated with red drapes and venetian blinds. The dark haired woman is wearing a simple dress with ornate lace shawl over it; she is not wearing jewelry."}, {"label": "Description", "content": "This print was produced by the lithographic firm E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. Edmund Burke Kellogg and Elijah Chapman Kellogg were younger brothers of the founder of the Kellogg lithography firm, Daniel Wright Kellogg. After Daniel Wright Kellogg moved west, his two brothers took over the family lithography firm in 1840 and changed the name to E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. They were responsible for the continued success of the family firm and involved in the partnerships with Horace Thayer in 1845/1846, John Chenevard Comstock in 1848 and William Henry Bulkeley in 1867."}, {"label": "Location", "content": "Currently not on view"}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "Harry T. 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