An increase of family – 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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An increase of family comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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An increase of family
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Currier & Ives, the New York firm famous for cheap hand-colored lithographs, published this print around 1863, during the Civil War years. Its title, "An increase of family," is a comic phrase that makes the picture's joke at the expense of the household rather than any battlefield. The record offers little else about its figures or scene, so the print is best read as part of the firm's large output of domestic humor, which sold widely to middle-class buyers who enjoyed its affectionate teasing of everyday life. catalog raisonné entries like this one, from the 1983 Gale Research volume, help historians date and trace such work.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1863. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3286 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,060 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111327 |
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