Friendship love and truth – 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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A window into the past: Friendship love and truth, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Friendship, Love and Truth" sets aside a particular person or place and instead personifies three virtues, which distinguishes it from the many genre scenes the firm produced. Currier & Ives issued this hand-colored lithograph in New York around 1874, when the company was printing large numbers of inexpensive images for home walls and parlor albums. Color was usually added by hand, often by workers applying pigments through stencils, so impressions from the same plate could differ in tone. The sentiment of the title made the print well suited to Valentine's Day, when cards and pictures of this kind celebrated affection in exactly these terms.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2324 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,091 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174484 |
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