Puppies

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1846-1847
Accession number: L2015.41.156
Maker: Unknown, American(Opens in new tab) (American)
Dimensions: frame: 11 × 14 × 1 in. (27.9 × 35.6 × 2.5 cm.)
Medium: watercolor on paper
Description: Stenciled drawing of two puppies with free-hand details in original blue and mustard split-spindle frame; New England.
Credit: Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection

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This charming, sentimental watercolor, probably made by a New England schoolgirl, was copied from one of 19th-century America's most popular mass-produced prints, Two Puppies, designed by James Herring and Peter Maverick and first issued in the late 1820s. The print was reissued in the 1830s by the Connecticut lithography firm of D. W. Kellogg & Company, which produced a second version, in reverse of the original, in the 1840s - the version copied here. The watercolorist has made numerous additions, including a factory building in the background, a fence, and trees whose diminutive scale renders the puppies as giants, and a fanciful rosebush.

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