Home sweet home – Historic 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
This rare antique lithograph captures Home sweet home in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Published by Currier & Ives in New York around 1874, this lithograph takes its title from the sentimental song "Home, Sweet Home," which John Howard Payne wrote in 1823 for the opera *Clari*. The firm, which ran one of the busiest print shops in the country, sold inexpensive color lithographs to a broad middle-class public, and domestic themes like this one were among its most reliable sellers. The print is catalogued as number 3111 in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of Currier & Ives, a reference that researchers use to trace the firm's output.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3111 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,055 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174698 |
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