The Trollope family : from a sketch taken from life, made in Cincinnati in 1829.

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Title: The Trollope family : from a sketch taken from life, made in Cincinnati in 1829.
Date: [1832]
Notes: A print satirizing Mrs. Trollope, the author of "Domestic manners of the Americans," a book which comments on American customs. Mrs. Trollope sits on the floor, holding an open book on her lap, with two girls beside her. The artist Auguste Hervieu paints a scene on a large canvas, possibly his lost painting of Lafayette landing in Cincinnati, while a man poses on a sawhorse holding a sword. Two men look on from the right, and a bulldog sits in the left foreground. This print is possibly the only depiction of Auguste Hervieu.; "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1832 by Childs & Inman in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."
Names and Subjects: Trollope, Frances Milton,--1780-1863--Caricatures and cartoons.; Hervieu, Auguste--Caricatures and cartoons.; Caricatures and cartoons--United States.; Families--1830-1840.; Painters (Artists)--1830-1840.; Prints shelf.; Childs & Inman,--lithographer.; United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Genre: Satires (Visual works) 1830-1840.; Group portraits 1830-1840.; Lithographs 1830-1840.
ID: 246
Barcode: B4878872
Physical Description: 1 print : lithograph ; 27.6 x 31.7 cm
Repository: William L. Clements Library
Date Added/Updated: 2016-01-06 00:04:29

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Collection: William L. Clements Library Image Bank
Image Size: 4568 x 3359
File Size: 2 MB
Record: 246
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