The death of Minnehaha – Antique Wall Art
![The death of Minnehaha, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1867. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/87/87d7be768d57-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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Step back in time with The death of Minnehaha, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The death of Minnehaha
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Minnehaha, the "Laughing Water" of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 poem *The Song of Hiawatha*, is the figure this hand-colored lithograph commemorates. In the poem she dies during a hard winter of famine, and her death devastates her husband, Hiawatha. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for mass-produced popular prints, issued many scenes from the poem during the 1860s, when Longfellow's work was widely read and its romanticized view of Native American life appealed to a broad audience. The print is a useful example of how a literary subject was turned into affordable, sentimental imagery for American homes.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1867. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1626. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,102 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175331 |
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