Home sweet home – Antique 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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Home sweet home comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The title comes from "Home, Sweet Home," the sentimental song John Howard Payne wrote for the 1823 opera *Clari*, with music by Henry Bishop. By the 1870s the phrase had become a stock emblem of domestic virtue, and Currier & Ives, the New York firm that sold inexpensive colored lithographs to a broad American public, returned to such sentiments often. The firm issued its prints in large numbers, and they reached ordinary parlors and kitchens across the country. This sheet is listed as number 3111 in the 1983 Gale Research catalog raisonné of the firm's work, a standard reference for identifying and dating its prints.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3111 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,205 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174698 |
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