The valley of the Shenandoah – Antique 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 The valley of the Shenandoah in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The valley of the Shenandoah
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Rather than a city or battlefield, this hand-colored lithograph takes the Shenandoah Valley itself as its subject, a long stretch of farmland in Virginia known for its rich soil and mills. Currier & Ives issued it around 1864, when the valley had become a contested war zone, and it was drawn by Frances F. Palmer, one of the firm's leading landscape designers. Later that year, Union forces under Philip Sheridan swept through the valley and destroyed crops and mills, so the pastoral scene carries a poignancy its first viewers may have felt.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1864. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Artist: Frances F. Palmer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6866 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,142 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175393 |
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