A color print of White men dancing and playing musical instruments in a barn while women and children watch and a Black laborer participates from outside.

Music is Contagious!

William Sidney Mount (1807-1868)

Date

1848, printed 1849
Object Type

Prints
Medium

Lithograph with applied watercolor
Contributors

Published by Goupil & Cie.
Dimensions

Image: 16 1/4 x 20 3/8 in.
Sheet: 19 3/8 x 21 5/8 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l.: Painted by W.S. MOUNT
l.l. in graphite: 26 / TOE
l.c.: NEW-YORK Published by GOUPIL, VIBERT & Co. 289, Broadway \ MUSIC IS CONTAGIOUS!\ This Print is Respectfully Dedicated to Charles M. Leupp, Esqre. \ by his most obedient Servants, \ Goupil, Vibert & Co,
l.r.: LEON NOEL fect.
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1983.168
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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