Blood will tell – Historic Print
![Blood will tell, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1879. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/34/346c259376b8-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Blood will tell. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Blood will tell
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Blood Will Tell" takes its title from an old proverb holding that a person's breeding or heredity will eventually show, and the print's record gives no further description of its scene, so its meaning rests on that phrase. Issued by Currier & Ives in New York in 1879, it belongs to the firm's large output of inexpensive lithographs, which sold widely to households across the country during the 1870s. The Library of Congress holds it, and it is listed as no. 0638 in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of the firm's work, a useful reference for placing it among the firm's other prints.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1879. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0638. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174105 |
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