The Marriage – Vintage 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.)
Description
A window into the past: The Marriage, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Marriage
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Titled simply "The Marriage," this color lithograph was published by Sarony & Major, a New York firm that produced genre and humorous prints for the American market. Its date of about 1846 places it in a decade when color lithography had become affordable enough for middle-class parlors, and wedding scenes were a popular subject for such prints. Images like this one reflected and reinforced the sentimental ideals of courtship and married life that were common in the period. The library's catalog lists it under marriage and weddings of the 1840s, which makes it a useful window onto how those rituals were pictured for ordinary buyers.
| Created / published | 1846 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, lithograph, color |
| Notes | Sarony & Major |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,489 × 3,505 px · prints to 8 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220007 |
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