The young housekeepers, the day after marriage / lith. & pub. by N. Currier. – Antique Wall Art
(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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The young housekeepers, the day after marriage / lith. & pub. by N. Currier. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The young housekeepers, the day after marriage / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.
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Titled *The Young Housekeepers, the day after marriage*, this hand-colored lithograph takes up a newly married couple on the morning after their wedding, when running a home turns out to be harder than they expected. Nathaniel Currier published it in New York around 1848 as one of his inexpensive genre sheets, a format that found a ready audience among middle-class buyers who enjoyed gentle comedy about everyday life. The print is catalogued in Cunningham and in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of Currier & Ives, which makes it a useful reference for anyone studying how domestic humor was sold in the 1840s.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1848. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Copyright by N. Currier. No. 222. Conningham no. 5710. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7419 |
| Subjects | Couples--1840-1850. Marriage--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 966 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175287 |
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