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editJohn Lewis Krimmel: The Country Wedding ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q3181935 |
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Title |
The Country Wedding |
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Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Description |
Shows the marriage (at home) of the daughter of a moderately prosperous Pennsylvania farmer in the late 1810s. The bride's wedding dress would probably be used as her regular "Sunday best" dress for the next year or so (note that the hem of her dress is an inch or two above the ankle, as was practical for even the Sunday-best dress of a farmer's wife -- while a special-purpose wedding gown, which generally only the rich wore, would probably be floor-length and/or with a train trailing behind). She happens to be wearing a white dress, but wedding dresses were very commonly of other colors also during that period. (The artist might have put the bride in white just to ensure that she's the natural visual focus of attention.) The bridesmaid is holding the bride's right glove, which she's taken off so that she can clasp the groom's hand directly skin-to-skin (something which at the time would be considered an inappropriate display in many other contexts, but not here). Symbolic lovebirds are in a cage above the bride and groom. The cat is hiding away on top of the cupboard. The whip-like thing that the little boy is holding is actually for spinning children's tops very fast. Here's some commentary which accompanied an engraving of the painting that was printed in the Analectic Magazine in 1820:
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Date |
1820 date QS:P571,+1820-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | painting | |||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Scanned by H. Churchyard |
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