Queen of Love and Beauty – 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
Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Queen of Love and Beauty. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Queen of Love and Beauty
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Queen of love and beauty" is a hand-colored lithograph published in New York by Currier & Ives, a firm that operated from the 1830s until 1907 and became known for inexpensive prints of sentiment, daily life and popular themes. Its courtly title suits the allegorical tone that made such images popular as romantic gifts, which is why the gallery groups it with Valentine's Day. Like most of the firm's prints, it was printed in black and white and then colored by hand, so a single design could appear in many versions. The Library of Congress holds the print, which is listed as entry 5427 in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of Currier & Ives.
| Created / published | c. 1856-1907 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, lithograph, hand-colored |
| Notes | New York: Currier & Ives |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 1,679 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175042 |
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