The Christmas Week – 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.)
Description
The Christmas Week comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Christmas Week
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Titled *The Christmas Week*, this color lithograph dates to about 1863, when the Civil War was entering its third winter and holiday imagery often reflected home-front life. Its maker, Henry Louis Stephens, was an artist active in Philadelphia who produced many lithographs during the war years, ranging from caricatures to scenes of everyday life. As a color print, it reflects the lithographic trade of the period, when the medium was the main way to reproduce pictures for a wide public. Viewers interested in wartime Christmas imagery will find it a useful point of comparison.
| Created / published | c. 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, lithograph, color |
| Notes | Henry Louis Stephens, artist |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 628 × 1,024 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216628 |
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