Into Mischief

Currier & Ives

Sentimental genre prints documented the social image of Victorian virtue through domestic scenes of courtship, family, home life, and images of the “genteel female.” Children are depicted studying nature or caring for their obedient pets as they learn their place in the greater world. Romantic scenes picture devoted husbands with their contented, dutiful wives. In these prints, young women educated in reading, music, needlework, the arts, the language of flowers, basic math and science are subjugated to their family’s needs.

Date: 1857
Type: lithograph
Medium: ink (overall material)
Department: NMAH
Institution: National Museum of American History
Object number: nmah_326057
Credit: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection

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Into Mischief

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