God bless father and mother – Historic Reproduction
(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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God bless father and mother comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Currier & Ives issued this lithograph around 1876 under the sentimental title "God Bless Father and Mother," a phrase that sums up the household devotion the firm sold so well in its later decades. The firm, based in New York, produced cheap colored prints that reached a broad middle-class market, and scenes of family piety like this one were among its most popular subjects. Cataloged as number 2596 in the Gale Research catalog raisonné, the print belongs to a body of work that shows how Victorian America imagined home, faith and childhood. Its moral message is plain, and the image is worth a look for how it presents domestic religion as something taught at a mother's and father's knee.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2596 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,206 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174566 |
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