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[Two young girls with horse and dog] – Vintage Print

[Two young girls with horse and dog], Chicago : Published by the Western Art Association, c1873. — antique lithograph
[Two young girls with horse and dog], Chicago : Published by the Western Art Association, c1873.. Antique lithograph from the Horses collection.

(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 [Two young girls with horse and dog], an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Two girls, a horse and a dog share the frame in this chromolithograph, which makes it a domestic scene rather than a portrait of a famous horse or an event. Chromolithography, a process that layered several color stones to build up a printed image, was a popular way to bring affordable color art into American homes in the 1870s. The Western Art Association published prints like this one in Chicago around 1873, and the record credits the design to Armstrong & Co. Genre subjects such as children with animals were especially common in these prints, offering middle-class buyers cheerful, sentimental pictures for the parlor wall.

Created / publishedChicago : Published by the Western Art Association, c1873.
Medium1 print : chromolithograph..
GenreGenre prints 1870-1880.Chromolithographs 1870-1880.
NotesCopyright by Armstrong & Co.
SubjectsGirls--1870-1880. Animals--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,152 × 1,455 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217224

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