General Tom Thumb: born in 1832, is 18 inches high, and weighs only 15 pounds – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique lithograph captures General Tom Thumb: born in 1832, is 18 inches high, and weighs only 15 pounds in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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General Tom Thumb: born in 1832, is 18 inches high, and weighs only 15 pounds
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Few performers of the 1840s were pictured as often as the man billed here as General Tom Thumb, whose height of 18 inches and weight of 15 pounds appear in the title as showman's claims. The performer was Charles Stratton, born in 1832 in Connecticut, whom P.T. Barnum began exhibiting in 1842 and promoted across the United States and Britain. This lithograph, hand-colored and published in New York around 1849 by Nathaniel Currier, reproduces a daguerreotype by John Plumbe Jr., so it is a printed copy of a photograph. That combination let a single likeness reach many buyers, and the title is worth reading closely, since its figures were part of the advertising.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1849. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Artist: after a daguerreotype by John Plumbe, Jr. (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2463 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,036 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174526 |
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