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Taking the Census, 1854 (oil on canvas)

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Taking the Census, 1854 (oil on canvas)
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Artist
Edmonds, Francis William (1806-63) / American
Location
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Medium
oil on canvas
Date
1854 AD (C19th AD)
Dimensions
71.1x96.5 cms
Image description

The United States Census of 1850 required the heads of households to provide information about their dependents. Edmonds’s humorous image, the earliest known of the census-taking process, shows a father’s efforts to recall his family statistics, while several of his children hide from sight. The small framed portrait of George Washington evokes the genesis of the country’s political system and the admonition never to tell a lie.

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child / USA / North America / America (continent) / statistic / interior / bureaucracy / census / post colonial / information / cottage / household / data / official / parents / regulatory / counting / population / enumeration / recording / demography / north america / post-colonial / clock / records / seated / statistics / hearth / bureaucrat / portrait / fire / couple / america / dependents / father / mother / group portrait / family / painting / regulation / mantel / usa / tally / george washington / Painting / Mzpainting

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