The monarch – Historic Reproduction
![The monarch, [before 1893] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/23/23d2642da8af-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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This antique lithograph of The monarch brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The monarch
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Printed in brown ink, *The Monarch* is one of only ten impressions pulled before the lithographic stone was destroyed, which makes each surviving print a rare survivor. The record dates it to before 1893, a period when American artists were turning to lithography for both commercial work and fine-art prints, often in small editions like this one. The catalog numbers cited in the record, Rueppel 5 and Price 78, place it within published checklists of American printmaking, where limited, single-stone works like this are cataloged for comparison. The title alone suggests a dominant central subject, though the record does not describe its imagery in detail.
| Created / published | [before 1893] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph (brown) ; 19.5 x 28.3 cm. |
| Notes | Rueppel, 5; Price, 78. Edition of 10. Stone destroyed. DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 124. Purchase; Pennell fund. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,212 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140716 |
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