The National Washington Monument – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The National Washington Monument. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The National Washington Monument
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Currier & Ives turned the unfinished Washington Monument into a showpiece in this c1885 chromolithograph, a color print that shows the obelisk rising over the capital at a time when its construction had stalled. Work began in 1848, but funding ran out and the shaft stood at roughly half its planned height for about two decades before Congress resumed building in 1876. The print was issued by a firm that sold such images widely to middle-class households, so it reflects how Americans pictured the national memorial as a patriotic emblem as much as an engineering project. Its bright palette and tidy composition are typical of the company's mass-market color lithographs of the 1880s.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1885. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4769 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 926 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175527 |
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