The Samels Family
Item
Creator
Eckstein, Johann
Title
The Samels Family
Description
"“The Samels Family,” painting by Johann Eckstein (1788). Long aft er the Revolution was over, Americans continued to look to Britain for their fashion cues. Th e interior of this American home is decorated in the English style. Note the imported Chinese figures that adorn the mantlepiece."
(Yokota, Unbecoming British, 97.)
(Yokota, Unbecoming British, 97.)
Date
1788
Source
"The Quilting Frolic." WikiArt. https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-lewis-krimmel/the-quilting-frolic-1813.
Contributor
Fahringer, Alyssa
Bibliographic Citation
Yokota, Kariann. Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation." New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Format
Painting