The jolly flat boat men / painted by G.C. Bingham, esq. ; engraved by T. Doney ; printed by Powell & Co. – Historic Print
(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.)
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Step back in time with The jolly flat boat men / painted by G.C. Bingham, esq. ; engraved by T. Doney ; printed by Powell & Co., a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The jolly flat boat men / painted by G.C. Bingham, esq. ; engraved by T. Doney ; printed by Powell & Co.
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Here a boatman dances on the deck to the tune of a fiddle while his companions look on, a scene that captures the leisure and high spirits of river crews. George Caleb Bingham, a Missouri painter, drew many such scenes of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, where flatboats carried farm goods and timber downstream to markets like New Orleans. Thomas Doney's mezzotint translates Bingham's painting into soft, rich tones, and Powell & Co. printed it around 1847. The men's easy camaraderie reflects the rough, close-knit culture of the river trade in the 1840s.
| Created / published | c1847. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : mezzotint. |
| Genre | 1997." |
| Notes | From the original painting |
| Subjects | Flatboats--United States--1840-1850. Men--Social life--United States--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,472 × 1,190 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218749 |
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