The marriage – Vintage 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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This antique lithograph of The marriage brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The marriage
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Titled simply *The marriage*, this hand-colored lithograph was published in New York by Nathaniel Currier around 1847, before his partnership with James Ives. Currier's shop issued inexpensive prints on many subjects, and workers often colored them by hand so that a single design could reach a wide audience. The print is listed as number 4340 in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of Currier & Ives, the standard reference for tracing the firm's output. Its low price helps explain why such sheets were pasted into albums and hung in homes across the country.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1847. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4340 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,042 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174919 |
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