Washington family – Antique Wall Art
![Washington family, New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a6/a6f1e5a86f94-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.)
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This rare antique lithograph captures Washington family in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Rather than Washington the commander, this hand-colored lithograph turns to the Washington family, a domestic subject that suggests a more private side of the first president. Nathaniel Currier published it in New York sometime between 1835 and 1856, when his firm was building a broad market for inexpensive pictures of American history and family life. Scenes like this helped shape a popular image of Washington as a devoted husband and father, a figure of personal virtue as well as public leadership. Hand coloring, applied to each sheet, gave the print a warmth that plain black-and-white engravings lacked.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1830-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7063 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,226 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175250 |
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