The Presidents of the United States – Vintage 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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A window into the past: The Presidents of the United States, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Presidents of the United States
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Nathaniel Currier's 1844 lithograph gathers the presidents of the United States onto a single sheet, a subject that appealed to buyers who wanted a patriotic display of national leaders. Currier ran his New York firm under his own name until James Merritt Ives joined him in 1857, and his shop sold prints like this one cheaply to a broad public. The date places the sheet in the year of a hotly contested presidential race, when a gallery of officeholders and their predecessors carried political as well as patriotic meaning. The hand coloring, applied by workers to many copies, gives the sheet its bright tones and was part of what made such prints popular.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1844. |
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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. 5304 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,069 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155787 |
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