My Absent Love – 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
Step back in time with My Absent Love, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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My Absent Love
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Titled *My Absent Love*, this hand-colored lithograph speaks to the ache of separation, a sentiment that suited the letters and cards people sent across distance in the later 1800s. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that issued it sometime between 1856 and 1907, produced sentimental scenes like this in large numbers, and many were colored by hand, so no two copies look exactly alike. The print is listed as number 4645 in Gale Research's Currier & Ives catalog raisonné. Its theme of longing for a distant sweetheart fits the Valentine's Day custom of exchanging tokens of affection, which had become popular in America by that era.
| Created / published | c. 1856-1907 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, lithograph, hand-colored |
| Notes | New York: Currier & Ives |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,003 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174954 |
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