The National Washington Monument – 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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Step back in time with The National Washington Monument, 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 National Washington Monument
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The Washington Monument in the District of Columbia was still unfinished when this chromolithograph was issued, and the print shows it as a towering white obelisk rising above the surrounding landscape, as if the nation's capital were already complete. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that turned out inexpensive color prints for a broad middle-class market, published the image around 1885, when construction had stalled after the monument's design was first set in motion decades earlier and money ran short. Its appeal lay in honoring George Washington through a patriotic emblem that many Americans could hang on their walls. The print is catalogued in Currier & Ives: A catalog Raisonné, no. 4769.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1885. |
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| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4769 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,076 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175527 |
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