The magic lake – Historic Print
![The magic lake, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3b/3be62516b454-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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures The magic lake in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The magic lake
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Titled *The magic lake*, this hand-colored lithograph names a fanciful scene rather than a documented place or event, so its interest lies in the title and the color work that brings it to life. New York publisher Currier & Ives issued it, and the firm sold inexpensive pictures of landscapes, sporting scenes and domestic life to a broad American public from the 1830s into the early 1900s. Hand coloring, usually done by teams of workers applying color through stencils, separates these prints from plain black-and-white lithographs. The imprint dates the print only to a span between 1856 and 1907.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4196 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,136 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175358 |
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