Southern river scenery – 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Southern river scenery. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Southern river scenery
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Currier & Ives produced this c1870 lithograph under the generic title "Southern river scenery," so its subject is a landscape rather than a named place or event, and the print's value lies in how it packaged an idealized South for a national market. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that ran the most prolific lithographic shop of the nineteenth century, sold such views to households across the country, many of them as cheap, colorful wall pieces. Scenes of broad rivers, lush banks and leisurely boats were a staple of the firm's catalog, and after the Civil War they often offered a soothing picture of rural calm. The entry in the Gale Research catalog raisonné, no. 6031, lets researchers place it within the firm's output.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1870. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6031 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,005 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111470 |
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