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.)

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