苹果酒制作 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	苹果酒制作
品名（英）	Cider Making
入馆年号	1966年，66.126
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	William Sidney Mount【1807 至 1868】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1840 - 公元 1841
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尺寸	27 x 34 1/8 英寸 (68.6 x 86.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	虽然这个场景令人信服地捕捉了农村生活中的一个时刻，但它的灵感在于围绕1840年艰苦的总统选举的政治操纵。辉格党候选人威廉·亨利·哈里森（William Henry Harrison）唤起了苹果酒制造商所体现的朴素的形象，他被提升为一个普通人，他更喜欢小木屋和硬苹果酒，而不是马丁范布伦民主党白宫的过度行为。这项工作是由著名的纽约商人和辉格党领袖查尔斯·奥古斯都·戴维斯委托的。戴维斯是民间"杰克唐宁"角色的创造者，他的沉思通过攻击导致1837年恐慌的灾难性杰克逊金融政策扩大了辉格党的吸引力。芒特是一位反对民粹主义者杰克逊的保守民主党人，他在他的画作中穿插了一些细节，比如醒目的苹果酒桶，可能是为了暗示更大的政治背景。 1841年，一位辉格党记者将这些引用编织成"纽约美国人"的轶事，充满了政治暗示和双重含义。可能比艺术家的意图更具体，他将每个人物比作选举中的一个角色或利益集团。芒特的动机很可能既包括微妙的政治关切，也包括致力于转录直接从他的农村环境中收集的视觉数据。这里永垂不朽的苹果酒厂一直矗立在长岛的塞塔基特，直到二十世纪初。
介绍（英）	Though this scene convincingly captures a moment in rural life, its inspiration lay in the political maneuvering surrounding the hard-fought presidential election of 1840. The image of down-home simplicity embodied by the cider makers was evoked by the Whig candidate, William Henry Harrison, promoted as a common man who preferred a log cabin and hard cider to the supposed excesses of the Democratic White House of Martin Van Buren. The work was commissioned by the prominent New York businessman and Whig leader Charles Augustus Davis. Davis was the creator of the folksy "Jack Downing" character, whose musings broadened Whig appeal through attacks on the disastrous Jacksonian financial policies responsible for the Panic of 1837. Mount, a conservative Democrat who opposed the populist Jackson, punctuated his painting with details, such as the prominently dated cider barrel, possibly intended to allude to the larger political context. In 1841, a Whig journalist wove the references into an anecdote in the "New York American" ripe with political insinuations and double meanings. Probably with greater specificity than the artist intended, he likened each figure to a character or interest group in the election. It is likely that Mount's motives included both subtle political concerns and a commitment to the transcription of visual data gleaned directly from his rural surroundings. The cider mill immortalized here stood in Setauket, Long Island, until the early twentieth century.