American homestead summer – Vintage Wall Art
![American homestead summer, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1868. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/20/20b090c657a6-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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Step back in time with American homestead summer, 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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American homestead summer
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Currier & Ives issued this hand-colored lithograph in 1868 as part of their long-running series on rural American life, and it presents a farmstead in full summer leaf. Lithographs of this kind were produced in quantity for a broad middle-class market, so the scene was meant to be recognizable to viewers who lived in towns as well as those who worked the land. Look closely at the coloring, which was applied by hand after printing and gives the foliage and sky their warmth. The print is catalogued in the firm's standard reference listing, a useful record of how the company's season and homestead scenes were arranged.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1868. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0184. |
| Subjects | Country life--United States--1860-1870. Dwellings--United States--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,454 × 1,156 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216871 |
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