The Girl I Love – 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
The Girl I Love comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Girl I Love
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The girl I love" is a sentimental lithograph issued from the New York firm of Currier & Ives around 1870, and its title alone gives it a personal, almost confiding tone. The firm, founded in 1834, turned out inexpensive color prints by the thousands, and its catalog covered everything from political cartoons to rural scenes and romantic subjects. Prints like this one were widely bought as keepsakes and valentines, and the medium made affectionate images affordable to ordinary households. Its listing in a catalog raisonné shows that collectors and historians have long treated the firm's output as a record of popular taste in postwar America.
| Created / published | 1870 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, lithograph |
| Notes | New York: Currier & Ives |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,002 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174562 |
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