The happy family: ruffed grouse and young – 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 The happy family: ruffed grouse and young brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The happy family: ruffed grouse and young
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Frances F. Palmer's hand is visible throughout this lithograph of a ruffed grouse hen tending her chicks, one of the many bird and animal scenes Currier & Ives issued in the 1860s. Palmer, who served as the firm's principal in-house designer for decades, drew on close observation of rural and woodland life to make these domestic scenes legible to a broad public. The print's cheerful title, "The happy family," reflects the sentimental taste of the period, when middle-class American households hung such images on parlor walls. Its presence in the Library of Congress collection makes it a useful record of how popular printmakers portrayed wildlife and home life just after the Civil War.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1866. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Artist: Frances F. Palmer (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2940 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,095 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110117 |
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