A free lunch / W. Walker. – 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.)
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A free lunch / W. Walker.
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Mice feasting on cheese give this lithograph its comic subject, and the title, *A free lunch*, adds a joke of its own. In the 1870s, many American saloons offered free snacks to customers who bought a drink, so the phrase hinted at something tempting that was never quite free. Published by Currier & Ives in New York around 1872 and credited to W. Walker, the print belongs to the firm's large output of inexpensive comic and genre pictures, which were sold widely to ordinary households.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872. |
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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. 2314. |
| Subjects | Mice--1870-1880. Cheese--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,184 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174479 |
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