The valley of the Shenandoah – Historic Reproduction
(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
A window into the past: The valley of the Shenandoah, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The valley of the Shenandoah
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Few places in the Civil War were fought over as often as the Shenandoah Valley, yet this lithograph presents it as a calm, pastoral landscape. Published by Currier & Ives in New York around 1864, the print was designed by Frances F. Palmer, one of the firm's leading landscape artists, and its hand coloring gave the scene the soft greens and blues that buyers of the day expected. The timing is striking, since armies crossed the valley's farms and towns repeatedly in 1864. Today the image reads as a portrait of a countryside that was being contested at the very moment it was printed.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1864. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Artist: Frances F. Palmer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6866 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,068 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175393 |
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