William Sidney Mount (American),Cider Making 1841-1842,oil on canvas.
In this Mount recorded the steps involved in making hard cider,presenting an image of life on a farm in Setauket, Long Island that is vivid and cheerful,but also a thinly veiled allusion to current events.A newspaper story published in connection with the painting suggested the Mount modeled each figure as a reference to a participant in the presidential campaign of 1840,in which the Whigs defeated the Jacksonian democrats by promoting their candidate,William Henry Harrison,as a common man who would rather drink cider in a cabin than move into the White House.
William Sidney Mount (American),Cider Making 1841-1842,oil on canvas.
In this Mount recorded the steps involved in making hard cider,presenting an image of life on a farm in Setauket, Long Island that is vivid and cheerful,but also a thinly veiled allusion to current events.A newspaper story published in connection with the painting suggested the Mount modeled each figure as a reference to a participant in the presidential campaign of 1840,in which the Whigs defeated the Jacksonian democrats by promoting their candidate,William Henry Harrison,as a common man who would rather drink cider in a cabin than move into the White House.