Kittie's lesson – Historic Reproduction
(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 Kittie's lesson brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Kittie's lesson
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Kittie's lesson is one of the many cat scenes that Currier & Ives produced in the 1870s, when the firm's sentimental domestic genre prints were a staple of American parlors. Here the title points to the picture's central premise: a young girl appears to be teaching a cat, a theme that let the publisher blend affection for animals with the period's ideals of childhood innocence and home life. The lithograph is catalogued as number 3621 in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of Currier & Ives prints, which makes it easy to trace among the firm's extensive output. Its appeal lies in the way it turns a small household moment into a gentle, instructive story.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1877. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3621 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,175 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-113665 |
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