The old farm house – Historic 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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Step back in time with The old farm house, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Titled *The old farm house*, this Currier & Ives lithograph, published in New York around 1872, depicts a rural dwelling rather than the machinery its gallery heading suggests. The firm produced large numbers of country scenes like this for a broad middle-class public that wanted images of rural life. Printed in quantity, such lithographs were often sold inexpensively, and this one is cataloged in the 1983 Gale Research catalog raisonné of the firm's work. It is worth noticing as a record of how the farmhouse was pictured as a homely ideal before mechanized farming changed the American landscape.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4944 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,078 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109922 |
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