Friendship love and truth – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Friendship love and truth. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Friendship love and truth
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Friendship, Love and Truth is an allegorical title, and the name itself explains the print's message: three abstract virtues presented as the foundations of a good life, a theme that suited the sentimental taste of the 1870s. Published in New York around 1874 by Currier & Ives, the firm produced large numbers of inexpensive lithographs, which were colored by hand, often by teams of workers, so that no two sheets were exactly alike. Prints like this one were bought for parlors and as gifts, and their affectionate moral themes made them a natural choice for occasions such as Valentine's Day.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2324 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,091 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174484 |
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