Height of fashion / painted by Mrs. L.M. Spencer ; lith. by LaFosse. – Antique Wall Art
(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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This rare antique lithograph captures Height of fashion / painted by Mrs. L.M. Spencer ; lith. by LaFosse. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Height of fashion / painted by Mrs. L.M. Spencer ; lith. by LaFosse.
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Titled "Height of fashion," this lithograph shows African American children at play with a dog, a scene the record dates to the 1850s. Mrs. L.M. Spencer painted the original, and LaFosse made the lithograph, which W. Schaus published in New York around 1854 with printing credited to a Paris firm. Genre scenes like this were popular in the period, and many depicted Black figures in comic or stereotyped roles, so the title and the children's depiction are worth reading closely. The print also shows how lithography carried American subjects across the Atlantic in the mid-nineteenth century.
| Created / published | New York : publ'd. by W. Schaus, c1854 (Paris : Imp. Fois Delarue). |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1850-1860. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Children--1850-1860. Children--1850-1860. Play (Recreation)--1850-1860. Dogs--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,140 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-167300 |
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