Print, Family Record

Title:

Family Register

Object Name:

Print, Family Record

Object ID:

1942.003.17

Creator:

Baillie, James S. (fl. 1838-1855)Artist

Place of Origin:

New York, NY

Date:

1846

Description:

Chromolithographic print of Family Register, by James S. Baillie (fl. 1838-1855), 1846. Ink on paper. Family register with no names filled in. There is color decoration across the top with figures separated by Gothic arches, and yellow foliate decoration down the sides. Printed title upper center margin: "FAMILY REGISTER." First image is of four figures: a man, a woman, a girl and a boy; below image is the printed inscription: "FAMILY / NAMES. / PARENTS. / CHILDREN." Second image is a woman in a blue dress in a bedroom with a child to left and she is rocking a baby in a cradle to right; below image is the printed inscription: "BORN / WHEN AND WHERE." Third image is of a woman and a man; the woman is wearing a pink dress and holding the man's hand; a minister stands behind a balustrade marrying them; below image is the printed inscription: "MARRIED WHEN, WHERE & BY WHOM." The last and fourth image is a woman in mourning attire kneeling with child at the base of a monument with urn reads: "I know that / my Redeemer / liveth"; below image is the printed inscription: "DIED / WHEN AND WHERE". Printed inscription lower center margin: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1846, by J. Baillie, in the clerks office, in the dist court for the southern dist N. Y. / Lith. & Pub. by J. Baillie, 118, Nassau St. N. Y." Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-12.9 W-16.9 inches

Credit Line:

Gift of Margaret H. Jewell

Subjects:

Family registers, Pictorial