The Presidents of the United States – Antique Wall Art
(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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The Presidents of the United States comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 Presidents of the United States
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Rather than a single leader, this lithograph presents the whole line of American presidents, which sets it apart from the many portrait prints of Washington that sold in the same decades. Nathaniel Currier, working in New York, produced hand-colored lithographs like this one for a broad middle-class market, where a set of national leaders on the wall signaled patriotic taste. Dated to about 1842, it appeared during John Tyler's first year and a half in office, after William Henry Harrison's death in April 1841, when the succession of chief executives was fresh in the public mind.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1842. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5301 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,032 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175027 |
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