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View of Chapultepec and Molino del Rey, (after the battle,): City of Mexico in the distance – Historic Photo Reproduction

View of Chapultepec and Molino del Rey, (after the battle,): City of Mexico in the distance, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1847. — antique lithograph
View of Chapultepec and Molino del Rey, (after the battle,): City of Mexico in the distance, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1847.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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A window into the past: View of Chapultepec and Molino del Rey, (after the battle,): City of Mexico in the distance, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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View of Chapultepec and Molino del Rey, (after the battle,): City of Mexico in the distance

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Few prints of the Mexican-American War show the ground itself as clearly as this one, which places the viewer above the fields of Chapultepec and the Molino del Rey, with the city of Mexico rising in the distance. The battles of September 1847 were fought at these sites in the final push toward Mexico City, and Nathaniel Currier issued the lithograph in New York that same year, when the war was still news. Hand coloring, common to Currier's work of the period, gives the smoke, foliage and sky a warmth that a plain black-and-white plate could not, and the print reflects the appetite of American readers for images of distant campaigns.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by N. Currier, c1847.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6905
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,120 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175625

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