Star of the south – 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 antique lithograph of Star of the south brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Its title, *Star of the South*, suggests a star as a symbol, perhaps for the southern states or the nation's growth, though the record does not name a specific scene or subject. Nathaniel Currier published this hand-colored lithograph in New York around 1847, when his firm produced inexpensive pictures for a wide middle-class market. Color was usually added by hand, often by workers painting several impressions in an assembly-line fashion, so no two copies look exactly alike. The print is listed as number 6111 in the Currier & Ives catalog raisonné, a standard reference for tracing the firm's output.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1847. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6111 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,106 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172887 |
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