Martha Washington – Antique Print
![Martha Washington, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a6/a611fd01e18e-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Martha Washington. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Martha Washington
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Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, is the subject here, shown in a hand-colored lithograph issued by the New York firm Currier & Ives. The print belongs to the company's long run of portraits of national figures, which were sold cheaply and reached a wide middle-class audience in the decades after the Civil War. Martha Washington, who was a widow with two children before she married George in 1759, became a stable domestic symbol in these prints, representing the hearth and family that supported the Revolutionary leader. The firm's hand-coloring, applied by workers using stencils, gives the image its bright, idealized tones.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4370 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,157 × 1,470 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175361 |
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