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Harvesting the last load. – Antique Wall Art

Harvesting the last load., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]. — antique lithograph
Harvesting the last load., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907].. Antique lithograph from the Barns & Farms collection.

(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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Harvesting the last load. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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A wagon heaped with the season's final sheaves marks the close of the harvest in this hand-colored lithograph, a moment many rural communities celebrated with a harvest home supper. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that issued thousands of sheets between the 1850s and the early 1900s, sold scenes like this to a public that often had roots in the countryside or missed it. Because color was applied by hand, often by teams of workers, surviving impressions of the same design can differ noticeably in their greens, golds, and browns.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907].
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2976
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,128 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174666

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