The colored beauty – Vintage Wall Art
![The colored beauty, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1877. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/24/24c1b7a9db65-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 The colored beauty. 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 colored beauty
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Titled *The colored beauty*, this 1877 lithograph belongs to a group of comic subjects that Currier & Ives, the New York firm, sold widely in the 1870s as inexpensive prints for a mass market. Many of the firm's figure subjects drew on racial stereotypes common in popular American humor after the Civil War. The title alone signals the joke, so viewers should read the image as evidence of how Black Americans were caricatured for entertainment, not as a neutral portrait. The print is listed as number 1322 in Gale Research's catalog raisonné of the firm's work.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1877. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1322. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,077 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174242 |
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