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Robinson Crusoe and his pets – Historic Reproduction

Robinson Crusoe and his pets, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. — antique lithograph
Robinson Crusoe and his pets, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 window into the past: Robinson Crusoe and his pets, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Currier & Ives drew on Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel *Robinson Crusoe* for this lithograph, which shows the castaway not with his famous goats or parrot in a jungle clearing but surrounded by a crowd of tame animals gathered around his island home. The print belongs to the firm's long run of comic and sentimental lithographs from the 1870s, when the New York shop turned out cheap, colorful images for a large middle-class audience. Such pictures often played on the idea of the solitary man tamed by domestic routine, and the catalog entry that accompanies this print helps place it among the firm's many works on popular stories and rural themes.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1870-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5627
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,176 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115150

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