Hug me closer George! – Vintage 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Hug me closer George! in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Few titles on this board are as direct as this one, which puts a plea for affection into the words of a speaker addressing someone named George. Currier & Ives published the lithograph in New York around 1886, when the firm was producing large numbers of comic and sentimental prints for a mass market that bought them cheaply for household walls. Pictures of this kind often played on courtship, marriage, and the everyday friction between men and women, and they were usually drawn to be understood at a glance. The print is listed as number 3228 in the 1983 Gale Research catalog raisonné of the firm's work, the standard reference for tracing its output.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1886. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3228 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,090 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174739 |
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