California scenery: Seal rocks-Point Lobos – Historic Reproduction
![California scenery: Seal rocks-Point Lobos, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6f/6f201ab86cda-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: California scenery: Seal rocks-Point Lobos, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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California scenery: Seal rocks-Point Lobos
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Seal Rocks off Point Lobos, on the Monterey Peninsula, is the subject that sets this hand-colored lithograph apart from the many Currier & Ives views of eastern towns and rivers on the same board. Published by the New York firm Currier & Ives, which issued prints from roughly 1834 to 1907, it belongs to a series of pictorial scenes that presented the American West to buyers who would never see it in person. The rocky coast and its offshore outcrops, where sea lions haul out, were a striking feature for nineteenth-century viewers, and the hand coloring adds the blues and greens of the Pacific surf and sky.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0858 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,103 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174155 |
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