The gay deceiver – 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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This rare antique lithograph captures The gay deceiver in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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*The Gay Deceiver* is a hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives in New York around 1871, with the artist John Cameron's signature on the image itself. Its title, which plays on the 19th-century sense of "gay" as showy or lighthearted, suggests a comic, sly character, and the dog subject fits the firm's steady output of humorous scenes for a mass market. Currier & Ives made affordable color prints that were sold widely to households, and hand-coloring by workers at the firm gave each sheet a bright, slightly variable finish. The print is catalogued in the firm's raisonné, which helps trace its place among the many animal scenes the company issued.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1871. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Artist: John Cameron (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2412 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,131 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175337 |
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