Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel.
Daniel Huntington, oil on canvas, 1861.

"When he entered the house, the conquest of his heart was complete....Here, rows of resplendent pewter, ranged on the long dresser, dazzled his eyes.  In one corner stood a huge bag of wool ready to be spun; in another a quantity of   linsey-woolsey just from the loom; ears of Indian corn and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the walls, mingles with the gaud of red peppers;....From the moment Ichabod laid his eyes upon these regions of delight, the peace of his mind was at an end, and his only study was how to gain the affections of the peerless daughter of Van Tassel."*

*[Washington Irving] The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., 2 vols., London: John Murray, 2, pp. 367-368.