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Billiards,-A kiss"" – Antique Wall Art

Billiards,-A kiss"", [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1874. — antique lithograph
Billiards,-A kiss"", [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1874.. Antique lithograph from the Sports collection.

(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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This antique lithograph of Billiards,-A kiss"" brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Its title pairs a game of billiards with a kiss, so the scene reads less as a study of the sport than as a flirtation staged around the table. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that issued this lithograph in 1874, built much of its business on inexpensive genre scenes of everyday American life, and billiards was a popular pastime in both private parlors and public halls at the time. Prints like this were meant to be taken in quickly and shared at home. The firm's 1870s output is documented in the Gale Research catalog raisonné, which lists this print as number 0585.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1874.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1870-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0585.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,082 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174141

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