The soldier's memorial – 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.)
Description
This antique lithograph of The soldier's memorial 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 soldier's memorial
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A woman in black kneels at a soldier's tomb in this hand-colored lithograph, the kind of scene that Currier & Ives sold to families during the Civil War. The print was published in New York around 1863, when the war had already claimed a great many lives and cemeteries and monuments were becoming places of public grief. Its catalog entry, number 5999 in the firm's raisonné, places it among the many sentimental images the company produced for parlor walls. Worth noticing is how the picture turns a soldier's death into a private, domestic act of mourning, a theme that later shaped the observance of Memorial Day.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1863. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand colored. |
| Genre | Memorial works 1860-1870.Lithographs Hand colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Woman mourning at tomb of Civil War soldier. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5999. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cemeteries. Tombs & sepulchral monuments--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,153 × 1,465 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215985 |
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