Scenery of the upper Mississippi: an Indian village – Antique Wall Art
![Scenery of the upper Mississippi: an Indian village, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/89/891eb31fc332-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Scenery of the upper Mississippi: an Indian village. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Scenery of the upper Mississippi: an Indian village
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The subject here is a Native settlement, a less common focus than the riverboats and bluffs that usually fill Currier & Ives's views of the Mississippi. New York publisher Currier & Ives produced many such scenic lithographs in the second half of the nineteenth century, and hand-coloring gave them a painterly finish that appealed to buyers who would never see the river themselves. Prints like this reflected a public appetite for western scenery, but they often presented Native people through a romantic and sometimes inaccurate lens. Today they are valuable as much for what they reveal about popular taste as for what they show of the village.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5818 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,254 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175086 |
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