The Life and age of man, stages of man's life from the cradle to the grave – Vintage 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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This hand-colored print traces a man's life in successive stages from the cradle to the grave, a theme that goes back to emblem books and to the "seven ages of man" speech in Shakespeare's *As You Like It*. It was issued in New York under the imprint of James Baillie around 1848, when American printmakers and publishers were producing many inexpensive sentimental and moralizing images for middle-class parlors. The coloring was applied by hand, so each impression could differ slightly in tone. Viewers today often read such series as a moral lesson on the brevity of life, and as a window into how mid-century Americans thought about aging and respectability.
| Created / published | New York : James Baillie, c1848 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : hand-colored. |
| Genre | Prints Color 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | Men--1840-1850. Aging--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,511 × 4,305 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif12818_TheLifeandageofmanstagesofmans |
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