The sailor's return – 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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures The sailor's return in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The sailor's return
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Nathaniel Currier's firm produced "The Sailor's Return" around 1847, when lithography was becoming the cheapest way for ordinary Americans to own pictures of everyday life. Hand-colored by workers who applied pigment stencil by stencil, the print belongs to the sentimental genre that Currier pursued in the 1840s, showing homecomings and domestic scenes meant to appeal to a broad middle-class public. Its catalog entry in the 1983 Gale Research raisonné places it among the firm's early output, and collectors still value such sheets for their vivid color and their glimpse of how Americans pictured family life before the photograph became common.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1847. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5747 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 979 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108951 |
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