The Grecian bend" - Fifth Avenue style" – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: The Grecian bend" - Fifth Avenue style", preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
The Grecian bend" - Fifth Avenue style"
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
The title names the subject outright: a stroller on Fifth Avenue, New York's most fashionable promenade, adopting the Grecian bend, the forward-tilted stance that was the height of style around 1868. Thomas Worth, whose signature appears on the image, was a caricaturist who produced many comic prints for Currier & Ives, and his work often mocked the excesses of city fashion. The posture took its name from a supposed resemblance to classical Greek statuary, and the bustle that exaggerated it drew steady ridicule in the popular press of the period.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1868. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Artist: Thomas Worth (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2880 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,009 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174650 |
More from the Historic Print Archive collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
