Little brothers – Antique Print
(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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Little brothers comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Little brothers
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Little Brothers" takes its subject from its title: a pair of young boys, presented as a small study in affection between siblings. The print was issued by Currier & Ives, the New York firm that dominated American popular printmaking in the later nineteenth century. This example is a lithograph colored by hand, a process in which workers added color to each impression, often following stencil-like guides. Scenes of children and home life were among the firm's most popular subjects, sold cheaply to families who wanted sentimental images for the parlor or nursery.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1875. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,035 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174867 |
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