Home About Us Site Map Services Appraisals Ordering/Shipping Favorite Links Holiday Specials The Rockwell Blog	The Marriage License Here's a classic Rockwell collector plate entitled "The Marriage License." Issued in a limited edition of 25,000 worldwide by Islandia International.  Beautiful gold trim and etched with the title of the plate and the date of the image, Saturday Evening Post, June 11, 1955. Numbered and signed. It's 8 1/4" wide and in excellent condition. Comes with box and certificate. Share the Marriage License with a Special Couple #NRII-001 $49.99-Temporarily Out of Stock   ...commentary from 102 Favorite Paintings by Norman Rockwell, Cross River Press, 1978. There can be little doubt that this is one of Rockwell's finest works. The idea behind it is simple enough: The artist contrasts the young couple applying for a marriage license with the elderly clerk who has seen it all a thousand times before." "The old clerk occupies an office that like him, seems to belong to the past. It contains rows of dusty volumes and an ornate potbellied stove. Paint is peeling from the dingy walls and cigarette butts are scattered on the floor.  But the tall sash window lets in the early summer light, which falls on the young couple, bathing them in its glow and causing them to stand out from their surroundings. Their concentration on the task at hand is such that the surroundings have no meaning for them anyway...."	Search this site powered by FreeFind Norman Rockwell Plates Knowles/Rockwell Society Christmas Coming of Age Colonials Heritage Innocence & Experience A Mind of Her Own Mother's Day On Tour Treasured Memories American Dream Golden Moments Light Campaign Rediscovered Women The Ones We Love Centennial Collection Commemorative Stamps The Bradford Exchange For All Time Collection A Mother's Love Norman Rockwell's Christmas Memories Mainstreet, Stockbridge Heritage House Gentle Memories Rockwell Museum American Family Series I American Family Series II Single Releases Christmas Children at Christmastime Classic Plate Series Gorham Four Seasons Series A Boy and His Dog (1971) Young Love(1972) Four Ages of Love (1973) Grandpa and Me(1974) Me and My Pals(1975) Grand Pals(1976) Going on Sixteen(1977) Tender Years(1978) A Helping Hand(1979) Dad's Boy (1980) Old Timers(1981) Life with Father(1982) Old Buddies(1983) Traveling Salesman(1984) Gorham Single Releases Clowns Scouting Through the Eyes of Rockwell April Fool Annual Series Christmas Series All American Girl Series Salesman Series Four Freedoms Series A Mother's Dilemma American Landscapes Presidential Series Lake Shore Prints (Gorham) Rockwell Series Islandia Single Releases Four Freedoms Hamilton/Royal Devon Saturday Evening Post Mother's Day Home of the Brave Saturday Evening Post Baseball Plates Christmas Series Goebel Portrait of America The Danbury Mint Rockwell's American Heroes Single Releases Young Love Saturday Evening Post Classics Ridgewood Fine China Tom Sawyer Series Fairmont China Early Works  The Curator Collection Stockbridge in Winter Trilogy The Tribute Series Rockwell Americana Series On the Road Masterpieces of Rockwell Simpler Times Contentment (Mother's Love Series) Collection of Legendary Art Christmas Mother's Day Single Issues River Shore Four Freedoms Single Issues America at Work Famous Americans Good Old Days Dave Grossman Design Boy Scouts of America Bas Relief Tom Sawyer Huck Finn The American Mother Specialty Collections/Single Issues Breweriana Series General Electric Tribute to Norman Rockwell Scotty Series The Homecoming (Brantwood) Saying Grace (Brantwood) The Telephone Lineman Little Gallery by Hallmark Continental Mint Country Postman Tray Doctor and the Doll by Royalwood Sweethearts Last Minute Changes Christmas Story Mrs. O'Leary's Cow Christmas Memories by Lenox
Just a Thought "The Marriage License" appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on June 11, 1955.