Description:
Framed mourning lithograph published in 1849 by James Baille, NY, which is set in a graveyard with tall wheeping willows and three member of a family dressed in black grouped around a large tombstone, and colored with watercolors. The tomb has the lithographed words, "TO THE / MEMORY OF," over an ink inscription: "Delia Frink / Daughter of James and / Ann H. Kindrick / July 25th 1850 / Aged / 3 yrs 3 months and 7 days." Written across the bottom is: "Entered Accordingly to the Act of Congress in the year 1849, by J. Baille, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the South District of N.Y." Mourning art was inspired by the English practice of memorializing public figues in textiles, ceramics, and prints. When George Washington died in 1799, mourning art began to flourish in America, a fashion that spread to the homes of the weathy first with young girs learning embroidery on samplers and creating pictures in silks in finishing schools. The lithograph print was an inexpensive way to follow this tradition; after 1856, Nathaniel Currier offered at least 13 different mourning scenes that cost only a few cents a piece.
Label Text:
When George Washington died in 1799, mourning art began to flourish in America, a fashion that spread to the homes of the wealthy first with young girls embroidering silk pictures. Mourning prints made by the hundreds were an inexpensive way to follow this tradition. For only a few pennies, prints could be personalized to remember a lost child. Delia Frink Kendrick (1847-1850), daughter of James and Anne Kendrick of Heath, Massachusetts, died at the age of three.
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