The Presidents of the United States – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The Presidents of the United States. 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 Presidents of the United States
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Nathaniel Currier published this single-sheet lithograph in New York around 1844, gathering the presidents under one title as a compact visual roll call of the office. The year fell in a heated presidential campaign, when Whig and Democratic partisans bought cheap printed images to display their loyalties, and the print likely served that appetite for national figures. Currier, who later partnered with James Merritt Ives, built his business on affordable lithographs like this one. The print is catalogued in the 1983 Gale Research catalog raisonné of Currier & Ives, where it appears as number 5302.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1844. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5302 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,133 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175029 |
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