The mother's blessing – Vintage Wall Art
![The mother's blessing, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/10/1045c6bbca6b-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 The mother's blessing. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A hand-colored lithograph titled "The mother's blessing," issued by the New York firm Currier & Ives, gives us a sentimental domestic scene of the kind the firm sold in large numbers during the later nineteenth century. The print is signed by the artist O. Starck, whose name appears on the image itself, and it is catalogued in the Gale Research raisonné of Currier & Ives work (no. 4598). Currier & Ives produced prints aimed at middle-class American households, often showing family life, religion and rural or sentimental themes, and hand-coloring was applied to many impressions to make them more appealing. Its date is given only as a span between 1856 and 1907, so the exact year of issue is uncertain.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Artist: O. Starck (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4598 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,124 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175362 |
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