The Caverly Family at Home, 1836 Itinerant amateur artists journeyed the back roads of antebellum America, painting individuals and families in standard repetitive poses. This picture of a New Hampshire family lists the names and ages at the bottom: Azariah, 44; George, 3; Sarah Jane, 7 months; and Eliza, 24.
Gift of Stephen C. Clark. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York. Photograph by Richard Walker.