General Grant and family – Vintage Print
(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 General Grant and family, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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General Grant and family
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Currier & Ives issued this c1867 lithograph of Ulysses S. Grant with his wife Julia and their children, a domestic portrait at a moment when the general was among the most famous men in the country. Grant had led Union armies to victory in the Civil War and would soon become a political figure, and popular printmakers like Currier & Ives turned such celebrated figures into affordable images for middle-class parlors. The print presents Grant as a devoted family man as much as a soldier, a deliberate choice that helped shape his public image. It is catalogued in the Gale Research raisonné of the firm's work, which makes it a useful reference for historians of nineteenth-century popular prints.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1867. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2446 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,266 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174517 |
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