Martha Washington – Antique Print
![Martha Washington, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4c/4c83fa7809b8-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
Step back in time with Martha Washington, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Martha Washington
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Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, is the subject of this hand-colored lithograph issued by the New York firm Currier & Ives, which printed portraits of national figures for a wide popular market. The firm operated from the 1830s into the early twentieth century, and its prints were sold cheaply in shops and by subscription, bringing images of famous Americans into ordinary parlors. Martha Washington managed Mount Vernon and supported her husband through the long years of the Revolutionary War, when she joined him at winter camps. Her portrait reflects how nineteenth-century Americans came to revere the founders' families as symbols of national virtue.
| 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. 4370 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,307 × 1,620 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175361 |
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