A flower basket – Antique 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.)
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A window into the past: A flower basket, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A flower basket
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A Flower Basket is a Currier & Ives lithograph published in New York around 1874, and it stands out on a board full of town scenes, battles and sporting pictures for being a plain still life. Its subject is simply a basket of blooms, the kind of decorative image the firm produced in quantity for parlor walls, where a bright floral arrangement was considered a suitable and cheerful furnishing. Currier & Ives, run from New York by Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives, built a large business on inexpensive colored lithographs, and pictures like this one reached middle-class homes that could not afford oil paintings. The catalog entry cited here, number 2213 in the firm's raisonné, places the print among its 1870s 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. 2213 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,202 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174454 |
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