Summer in the Country
19th Century Americana Landscape

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Summer in the Country
Kellogg & Bulkeley
Summer in the Country
Hartford, Connecticut: 4th Quarter 19th Century
Hand-colored lithograph
10 x 14 1/2 inches, overall
8 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, image
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Charming American lithograph of a bucolic country scene depicting a prosperous family traveling through the woods on horseback toward a house, flanked by several hounds.

The Kelloggs were lithographers active in Hartford, Connecticut, New York City and Buffalo, New York. They produced an immense number of black-and-white and hand-colored lithographs during the 19th century, second only to their contemporaries and competitors Currier & Ives.   The Connecticut Historical Society has almost 1,000 lithographs by the Kelloggs in their collection, including sentimental scenes, views of towns and buildings, portraits and historical scenes such as Civil War battles.

The Kellogg firm was founded by Daniel Wright Kellogg (1807-1874), who pioneered publishing inexpensive and popular lithographs in the United States under the name D.W. Kellogg & Co. in Hartford about 1833.  Around 1843, he was joined by his brothers Edmund Burke Kellogg (1809-1872) and Elijah Chapman Kellogg (1811-1881), who began trading as E.B. and E.C. Kellogg.  Edmund had a background as a journalist and editor and Elijah was trained as an engraver; he also was one of the first in the U.S. to breed trout artificially and wrote treatises on fish culture.  Their firm was headquartered at 136 Main Street in Hartford until 1852. The Kelloggs also had offices in New York with Horace Thayer in (1846-47), J.G. Comstock (1849-52), and thereafter without partners until about 1860.  Charles E. Kellogg, son of E.B., joined the business in 1860. In 1871, William Henry Bulkeley joined the firm and undertook a major reorganization of  the business into a successful printing house called Kellogg & Bulkeley, specializing in colorful chromolithographs.  The firm later merged with Case, Lockwood & Brainard to form Connecticut Printers in 1947.

References:

"Connecticut's Currier & Ives: Lithographs by the Kellogg Brothers." Connecticut Historical Society. 2002. http://www.chs.org/graphcoll/kelloggprint.htm (9 June 2004).

"Kellogg Prints: Kellogg and Bulkeley." Connecticut Historical Society. 2002. http://www.chs.org/graphcoll/kelloggprint4.htm (9 June 2004).

Peters, Harry T. America on Stone. U.S.: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. pp. 242-247.