Politics in an oyster-house / painted by Woodville ;lithographed by Fanoli ; printed by Lemercier, in Paris. – Historic Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with Politics in an oyster-house / painted by Woodville ;lithographed by Fanoli ; printed by Lemercier, in Paris., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Politics in an oyster-house / painted by Woodville ;lithographed by Fanoli ; printed by Lemercier, in Paris.
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Men arguing over newspapers and the news of the day fill this lithograph, which reproduces a genre scene that the American painter Richard Caton Woodville completed in 1848. The image was adapted by the engraver Fanoli, printed by Lemercier, and published by Goupil & Cie in Paris around 1851, so it carried American political life to European buyers. Its crowded, smoky interior shows how oyster houses and taverns served as places where ordinary men gathered to debate candidates and issues in the years before the Civil War.
| Created / published | Paris : Goupil & Cie, ca. 1851. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840-1860. |
| Notes | Copyright by W. Schaus. Title also in French. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Discussion--1840-1860. Men--Political activity--1840-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,172 × 1,481 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218434 |
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