Description:
Print of Williams College by E.B. & F.C. Kellogg of Hartford, Connecticut. The view of Williams College, located in Williamstown, Mass., looks northwest and depicts horses and wagons on the Main road (now Rt. 2) with a building copied from one by Bullfinch at Phillips Academy, Andover; the observatory (the first college observatory) on the right; a tall building (first college building) on the left; and the President's house (built as a private residence). In 1830, Daniel Wright Kellogg (1807-1874) opened a shop on Main Street in Hartford to manufacture and sell lithographic prints. He as soon joined by his brothers, Elijah Chapman Kellogg (1811-1881) and Edmund Burke Kellogg (1809-1872), who together dominated printmaking in Harford for the next 40 yrs. Although they employed other lithographers as their business prospered, both Daniel Wright Kellogg and Elijah Chapman Kellogg were talented artists who executed many of the drawings on stone themselves. Around 1842, Daniel Wright Kellogg moved west, leaving his brothers in charge; the firm had several, subsequent unsuccessful partnerships and corresponding name changes, but Elijah Chapman Kellogg and Edmund Burke Kellogg were associated with the business until 1867. Kellogg lithographs were colorful, uncomplicated treatments of popular subjects designed to please a large audience, which were very popular in Victorian America. A distinctive Kellogg style is evident in their prints: Figures, buildings and landscape elements are frequently reduced to geometric shapes such as cylindrical arms, triangular torsos and conical skirts; and often simplified backgrounds are set within vertical and horizontal plans. Peter Spang found this print inside a copy of Rodolphus Dickinson's "A Digest of the Common Law...", printed in Deerfield by John Wilson in 1818.
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