Cider Making (painting)

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Cider Making is an oil painting by American artist William Sidney Mount, created in 1840–41. It shows workers at a cider mill on Long Island, likely the mill at Setauket, which operated into the early 20th century. The painting is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Mount, who opposed Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, may have included political commentary, since rural cider imagery was often used by William Henry Harrison’s Whig supporters. He was paid $250 for the work.