The lost cause – 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.)
Description
Step back in time with The lost cause, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The lost cause
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The Lost Cause" takes its name from the phrase Southern writers popularized after the Civil War to describe the Confederacy's defeat as a noble failure. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for mass-produced popular lithographs, published this print around 1872, when many Americans were still deciding how to remember the war's dead. The record gives no further detail of the scene, so its meaning is best read through that postwar moment of remembrance, which explains its place among Memorial Day material.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4102 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,149 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113065 |
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