The mother's grave – 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: The mother's grave, 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 color lithograph titled "The Mother's Grave," published in New York by J. Baillie around 1848, presents a sentimental scene of a family gathered at a tomb. Pictures of this kind belong to the mid-nineteenth-century vogue for mourning imagery, when domestic loss and the cemetery were favorite subjects for popular printmakers and their middle-class buyers. Prints like this one were often hung in parlors and sold as keepsakes, and the hand-colored or tinted tones of such lithographs were meant to make the grief feel tender and personal. Its pairing of family and tomb also reflects the rise of the rural cemetery as a place for public remembrance in the decades before the Civil War.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Published by J. Baillie, c1848. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Memorial works 1840-1850.Lithographs Color 1840-1850. |
| Subjects | Families--1840-1850. Tombs & sepulchral monuments--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,164 × 1,466 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215986 |
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