The old oaken bucket – Antique Print
![The old oaken bucket, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/01/01149f775bd5-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic print of The old oaken bucket. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The old oaken bucket
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The subject here is a rustic well bucket, the object that gave its name to one of the most popular sentimental songs of the nineteenth century. Samuel Woodworth's poem, published in 1817, recalls a boyhood well and the cool water drawn from it, and it was later set to music and sung widely in American parlors and at public gatherings. This print reproduces a painting after Jerome Thompson, an American artist known for scenes of rural and domestic life, so the image turns that nostalgia into a picture of home. The print's date is not recorded, so its production history remains uncertain.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on shelflist card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | After Jerome Thompson. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Frye. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,017 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151315 |
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