The Queen of Love – 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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The Queen of Love comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Titled "The queen of love," this hand-colored lithograph points to the classical goddess of love, a figure who turned up often in nineteenth-century sentimental art. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that published it, sold inexpensive colored prints to a broad middle-class public, and its romantic subjects reflected the period's custom of exchanging valentines. The record gives only a publication span of 1856 to 1907, so the exact year of issue is uncertain, but the print is listed in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of the firm's work. Hand coloring, usually added by workers after printing, made each sheet a little different in tone.
| Medium | print, lithograph, hand-colored |
|---|---|
| Notes | New York, Published by Haasis & Lubrecht |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,079 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175041 |
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