Cares of a family – Antique Print
![Cares of a family, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1865. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5e/5ef88a1e58ab-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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This rare antique lithograph captures Cares of a family in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Cares of a Family," issued by Currier & Ives in New York in 1865, is filed among the firm's bird subjects, suggesting a domestic scene of birds tending their young. The firm, run by Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives, produced inexpensive hand-colored lithographs that reached a broad middle-class market, and its rural and barnyard sentiment was especially popular in the years after the Civil War. The print is listed in a 1983 Gale Research catalog raisonné of the firm's work, which helps place it among the many sentimental lithographs the company issued in the 1860s.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1865. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0908. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,328 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174166 |
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