The Library – Antique Print
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Description
Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The Library. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Here a lone reader sits among shelves of books, a quiet domestic image of the kind that circulated widely in the late 1890s. The print is credited to Charles Locke and dates to about 1899, when lithography was a common way to reproduce pictures for magazines, calendars and home walls. Images of libraries and reading rooms from this period often reflected a growing middle-class enthusiasm for self-improvement and private study. Look closely at the layered inks and the handling of light on the books, which show what lithographic printing could achieve before photographic halftone reproduction took over.
| Created / published | c. 1899 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, lithograph |
| Notes | Charles Locke |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,146 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176660 |
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