Washington at home – Vintage Wall Art
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Washington at home. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Where most Currier & Ives pictures of George Washington show him on the battlefield or in formal public ceremony, this lithograph, titled "Washington at Home," turns to his private life. The firm published it in New York around 1867, when its prints of national heroes sold widely to middle-class households. Images like this one presented the first president as a gentle, dignified family man, a version of him that suited a country still healing from the Civil War and looking back to its founding.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1867. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7050 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,235 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109748 |
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