La Temptation – 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
This rare antique lithograph captures La Temptation in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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La Temptation
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Titled *La Temptation*, this lithograph from about 1869 is a tobacco package label that draws on a Biblical subject to sell a consumer product. Tobacco makers of the 1860s often used colorful printed labels like this one to stand out on shop shelves, and many borrowed familiar religious and classical scenes to attract buyers. The print was copyrighted by Wm. Lee and produced by the New York firm F. Heppenheimer & Co, whose address at 22 and 24 North William Street places it in the city's busy lithographic trade. Labels like this one show how advertising and popular taste overlapped in the decade after the Civil War.
| Created / published | c1869. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | LOT subdivision subject: Biblical illustrations. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Wm. Lee. Lith. F. Heppenheimer & Co, 22 & 24 N. Wm. St., N.Y. Caption card tracings: Tobacco -- Advert. Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,061 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118354 |
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