Inspired by the Museum’s fascinating Soulful Creatures exhibition (closing soon!), this print shows

Inspired by the Museum’s fascinating Soulful Creatures exhibition (closing soon!), this print shows that, though nineteenth-century Americans usually did not mummify their dead pets, they did perform other sentimental rituals for deceased animals. In this lithograph by the prolific American printmaking firm, Currier & Ives, a group of children lead a bird, resting in a decorated cart, to its burial plot.Sentimental prints like these were key decorations for middle and lower class homes in the mid-nineteenth century. Marketed by Currier & Ives as “colored engravings for the people,” these lithographs were often copies of paintings by fine artists and were a way for Americans who could not afford oil paintings to bring other forms of art into their homes.Posted by Eliza ButlerCurrier & Ives (American). The Burial of the Bird, n.d. Hand-colored lithograph on wove paper, Sheet: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. Harry Elbaum in honor of Daniel Brown, art critic, 1991.285.13 -- source link

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