Name/Title
Notecard, Country Print Notes: Country Cooking Notes 334, Smokehouse (TK)Description
A notecard with a five-color silkscreen print on off-white linen affixed to a folded textured notecard. The composition depicts a brick smokehouse with a shingled roof. Within the smoke chamber are two hams, a side of bacon, and two types of sausage. In front of the smoke chamber is a blue meat grinder on a wooden horse, and a black cast iron kettle for mixing the sausage filling. A built-in woodbin sits below the smoke chamber.
The textile is framed by a dark ochre border printed on the notecard. On the back of the notecard is Wert’s logo topped with a rooster on a skimming spoon and the type, “robert darr wert’s COUNTRY PRINT NOTES hand printed on pure linen”. Two smaller spoons dangle from the handle of the skimming spoon. Within the bowls of the spoons are a “C” and and “R” for “copyright” and “registered trademark”.
This design is one of a set of six Country Cooking Notes from the Country Print Notes line. It is listed in the Spring 1958 Country Prints price list, and appeared in the c.1960 brochure “Mats Sets by Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints”. It was also produced as a framed print.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1956Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
Textile print is unsigned; Wert’s logo is printed on the back of the notecard.
In pencil on back face, a handwritten notation may indicate the retail price and a letter code for the wholesale price. If this is correct, the retail price was .45 cents.Dimensions
Dimension Description
Notecard ClosedHeight
6-1/4 inWidth
4-1/4 inDimension Notes
Notecard Open: 6 1/4” x 8 1/2”Material
Bleached Linen, CardstockColor
Red-Orange, Yellow, Brown, Black, Blue
