Life and age of man: stages of man's life from the cradle to the grave – Antique Print
![Life and age of man: stages of man's life from the cradle to the grave, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/15/1599df0194b9-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 Life and age of man: stages of man's life from the cradle to the grave. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Life and age of man: stages of man's life from the cradle to the grave
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This hand-colored lithograph takes the old idea of life's stages, from the cradle to the grave, and presents them as a sequence of ages of man. Published in New York by Currier & Ives, the firm sold inexpensive color prints to households across the country through much of the nineteenth century, and the subject reflects the popular taste for images about mortality and the passage of time. The hand coloring, added to each sheet after printing, was a common finishing step that kept these prints cheap while still making them lively on a parlor wall. The publication date is given only as a range, 1856 to 1907, so the print may have circulated over several decades.
| 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 | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3769 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,099 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172890 |
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