Object Details
- agent
- Needham, D.
- distributor; publisher
- Kelloggs & Thayer
- lithographer
- E.B. and E.C. Kellogg
- Kellogg, E.B. and E.C.
- Description
- This hand colored print depicts a tree labeled "Hope" and "Love" growing from soil marked "Faith" and "Repentance". Above the tree the word "Grace" appears. There are two angels at the foot of the tree. One is pushing away the devil who carries an axe; the other is watering the tree from a watering can. The tree bears fruit labeled with various Christian virtues such as justice, chastity, goodness, industry, purity and so forth. The inscription below the image explains its Biblical inspiration is Psalm 1, Verse 3: “And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season.”
- This print was based on a 1791 print, The Tree of Life by John Hagerty. It was produced by the lithographic firm E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. Edmund Burke Kellogg (1809-1872) and Elijah Chapman Kellogg (1811-1881) were brothers of the founder of the Kellogg lithography firm, Daniel Wright Kellogg (1807-1874). After D.W. Kellogg moved west, his two brothers took over the family lithography firm in 1840 and changed the name to E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. The younger two of the four Kellogg brothers, they were responsible for the continued success of the family firm. These two brothers were also involved in the eventual partnerships between the company and Horace Thayer in 1845 or 1846, John Chenevard Comstock (1818-1862) in 1848 and William Henry Bulkeley (1840-1902) in 1867.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- ca 1846
- ID Number
- DL.60.2919
- catalog number
- 60.2919
- accession number
- 228146
- maker number
- 124
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 12 7/8 in x 9 1/2 in; 32.7025 cm x 24.13 cm
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Hartford
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Religion
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- Morality & Religious Prints
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Costume
- Record ID
- nmah_325205
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-90d1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
