Carrier Dove: The departure – Historic Reproduction
![Carrier Dove: The departure, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0b/0b361815f8c1-L.webp)
(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 Carrier Dove: The departure. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Carrier Dove: The departure
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A dove poised to leave its roost gives this Currier & Ives lithograph its subject, the moment of departure the title names. Carrier pigeons, bred to fly back to their home lofts, carried messages over long distances before the telegraph and telephone reached most households, and the homing bird suited a public that valued loyalty and the pull of home. The New York firm issued its sheets in large runs for a mass market, and this example was finished by hand in color, a common practice for its popular prints of the period.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0924 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,077 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174171 |
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