A brush with Webster Carts – Antique Print
![A brush with Webster Carts, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1884. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1e/1e518e675bc3-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 A brush with Webster Carts. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A brush with Webster Carts
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The title points to a collision or near miss involving Webster carts, and the 1884 lithograph builds its scene around that vehicle. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that published it, was the best-known American maker of color lithographs in the late nineteenth century. Its inexpensive prints drew on everyday city life, horses, and street traffic, which were common subjects for a broad popular audience. The print is listed in the 1983 Gale Research catalog raisonné of the firm's work, which makes it easy to compare with the company's other prints from the 1880s.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1884. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0802. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,096 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175416 |
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