Art Gallery: Grand United States Centennial exhibition 1876 - Fairmount Park, Philadelphia – Historic Print
![Art Gallery: Grand United States Centennial exhibition 1876 - Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [1876?] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/55/55484cc9e153-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.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Art Gallery: Grand United States Centennial exhibition 1876 - Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Art Gallery: Grand United States Centennial exhibition 1876 - Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
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The building at the center of this print is the Art Gallery, the stone Memorial Hall that stood in Fairmount Park for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia. The fair opened that May to mark a century since the Declaration of Independence, and its art galleries drew large crowds to see American and European paintings and sculpture. New York firm Currier & Ives, known for popular lithographs of American subjects, issued this hand-colored view so buyers far from Philadelphia could see the grounds. The print's color work was applied by hand, a common finish for the firm's lithographs of the period.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, [1876?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0296 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,108 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173921 |
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