Combat at the military station: Of Chateau d' Eau, 24th February 1848 / combat au poste: Du Château d' Eau, 24 Févr. 1848 – Antique Print
![Combat at the military station: Of Chateau d' Eau, 24th February 1848 / combat au poste: Du Château d' Eau, 24 Févr. 1848, [New York] : N. Currier, 1848. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2c/2caff6348cac-L.webp)
(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 Combat at the military station: Of Chateau d' Eau, 24th February 1848 / combat au poste: Du Château d' Eau, 24 Févr. 1848, 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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Combat at the military station: Of Chateau d' Eau, 24th February 1848 / combat au poste: Du Château d' Eau, 24 Févr. 1848
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Here the setting is a military post at the Château d'Eau, a landmark on the boulevards of Paris, during the fighting of February 24, 1848. That day's clashes helped bring down the July Monarchy, and Louis-Philippe abdicated before the day ended. Nathaniel Currier, a New York printmaker, issued the lithograph within weeks, so it shows how quickly American publishers turned European upheaval into images for a public eager for news. The hand coloring adds to its value as an early record of how the revolution was reported across the Atlantic.
| Created / published | [New York] : N. Currier, 1848. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1333. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,271 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175325 |
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