Top of the heap! – 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.)
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This rare antique lithograph captures Top of the heap! in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Top of the heap!" takes its name from the expression for reaching the very summit of one's field or fortunes, and the print was issued in New York around 1880 by Currier & Ives, the firm that dominated American popular lithography in the later nineteenth century. Its hand-colored or printed scenes were sold cheaply and widely, making them a common part of middle-class parlors and taverns. The image is cataloged as number 6579 in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of the firm's work, which makes it easy for researchers to compare it with the company's other prints of the period. Readers interested in the image itself will find that its appeal lay in quick, legible humor or sentiment, typical of the firm's output.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1880. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6579 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,159 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113890 |
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