Farmers nooning, from the original picture in the possession of Iona Sturges Esqr. / painted by W.S. Mount ; engraved by Alfred Jones. – Antique 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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A window into the past: Farmers nooning, from the original picture in the possession of Iona Sturges Esqr. / painted by W.S. Mount ; engraved by Alfred Jones., preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Farmers nooning, from the original picture in the possession of Iona Sturges Esqr. / painted by W.S. Mount ; engraved by Alfred Jones.
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Few prints of the 1840s show field work as plainly as this one, which depicts farmworkers resting at midday, or "nooning," during the harvest. William Sidney Mount, a Long Island painter known for rural genre scenes, made the original picture, which was owned by Iona Sturges, and Alfred Jones engraved it for the Apollo Association. The association distributed the print to its members in 1843, and the Library of Congress holds a set of progressive proofs showing the plate in unfinished states. The image is also notable for including African American laborers among the workers, a presence that appears less often in the period's rural art.
| Created / published | New York : Published by the Apollo Association, 1843 (printed by J. Dalton) |
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| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Printed exclusively for the members of the year 1843. Library has (no. 1) finished state, Dalton printing; (no. 2 to 9) progressive proofs in various unfinished states; and (no. 10) Printed by Burton." DLC Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf |
| Subjects | Agricultural laborers--1840-1850. African Americans--Employment--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,454 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218430 |
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