Snap Apple Night – All Hallow Eve
After an engraving by James Scott British
After a painting by Daniel Maclise Irish
Lithographed and published by Currier & Ives American
Not on view
A Halloween party shows villagers in an interior playing traditional games. By a hearth at left, a man tries to catch an apple attached to a suspended wooden cross while, at right, boys duck for apples in a barrel. The image is based on a painting of 1833 by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise which had been engraved by James Scott and published in London in 1845 (see 49.40.212). Maclise based the composition on a scene he witnessed in Blarney, pointing to the Irish origin of some Halloween traditions.
