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| Keywords: 11-stages-womanhood-1840s.jpg The Life Age of Woman - Stages of Woman's Life from the Cradle to the Grave a ca 1849 U S print illustrating 11 chronological stages of virtuous womanhood with the 30's evidently considered to be the peak years each accompanied by a descriptive verse couplet At left is a flourishing green tree at right a symbolic weeping willow For another version of this print see File Life and age of woman jpg For a similar German-language graphic see File Waldenbuch-Stufenalter der Frau52657a jpg An approximate transcription of the verse couplets in the image some of the words are quite hard to read 1 Infant in cradle A wailing infant first she plays Unconscious of her future days 2 Young girl with doll Her girlish pastimes reveal for show The cares which woman's life must know 3 Late teen girl in grownup clothes Her ripened beauty all confess And wonder at her loveliness 4 Bride in white dress and veil A husband's arms in hope and pride Enclasp her now a lovely bride 5 Young mother holding baby A mother's anxious love and care With toilful heart is hers to share 6 Dressed to go outdoors i e now that she no longer has babies or toddlers in the house she can now take an interest in matters outside the home ” though in a strictly private and individual charitable capacity of course Now to the poor her hands dispense the blessings of benevolence 7 Middle-aged woman first declining step Absorbed in household duties now The weight of toil contracts her brow 8 In black bonnet and holding handkerchief suggesting the latter stages of mourning perhaps her husband has died She now resigns all earthbound care And lifts her soul to heaven in prayer 9 Old wearing spectacles At eighty years her well-stored mind Imparts its blessings to her kind 10 Bent over using cane The hoary head us all should bless Who abound in ways of righteousness 11 Sitting in chair knitting The body sinks and wastes away The spirit cannot know dismay Vignette under arch Funeral scene There are smaller vignettes under each of the nine steps of the arch Edited from image http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g03000/3g03600/3g03651u tif at the Library of Congress website ---- Bibliographic information found on the LoC site TITLE The life age of woman Stages of woman's life from the cradle to the grave / Kelloggs Comstock N Y Hartford Conn CALL NUMBER PGA - Kelloggs Comstock--The life age of woman A size P P REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-USZC4-3651 color film copy transparency LC-USZ62-83539 b w film copy neg MEDIUM 1 print lithograph hand-colored CREATED/PUBLISHED Buffalo Ensign Thayer between 1848 and 1850 CREATOR Kelloggs Comstock SUBJECTS Women--1840-1850 Human life cycle--1840-1850 FORMAT Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850 REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C 20540 USA DIGITAL ID color film copy transparency cph 3g03651 http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cph 3g03651 b w film copy neg cph 3b30124 http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cph 3b30124 CARD 95505632 Edited from image http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g03000/3g03600/3g03651u tif ~ 1849 Kelloggs Comstock PD-old-70-1923 Girls in art Women in art 1840s fashion Steps of life Life and age of woman c1848-1850 Dolls in art Aging | ||||
