Lovers ramble – 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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A window into the past: Lovers ramble, 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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Lovers Ramble" is a color chromolithograph issued around 1880 by Wm. M. Donaldson & Co., a Cincinnati firm that produced and published lithographic prints. Chromolithography, which layered several stone or metal plates to build up full color, made inexpensive decorative images widely available in the late nineteenth century, and Cincinnati was one of the American centers of the trade. The title and subject headings point to courtship and the "lovers' lane," a sentimental motif that appeared often in popular prints of the period. The image shows how commercial printers turned romance into a familiar, mass-market subject.
| Created / published | Cincinnati : Wm. M. Donaldson & Co., chromolithographers and publishers, c1880. |
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| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph, color. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1880. |
| Notes | Copyright by William M. Donaldson & Co. |
| Subjects | Lovers' lanes--1880. Courtship--1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,472 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218515 |
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