A happy family – Antique Wall Art
![A happy family, [1866] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/75/75ecf7bd865c-L.webp)
(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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This antique engraving of A happy family brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A happy family
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The title, *A happy family*, is the most specific detail the record offers, and it reads differently beside an 1866 date, only a year after the Civil War ended and while many households were still absorbing their losses. The engraving appeared in *Harper's Weekly*, the New York illustrated weekly, in a volume that also carried a series of personal recollections of the war. Wood engravings like this one were cut from artists' drawings so they could be printed alongside text, which made them a common way Americans saw everyday domestic scenes in the years after the conflict.
| Created / published | [1866] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 33 (1866). Personal recolletions of the war." This record contains unverified |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,271 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118732 |
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