Look at papa / lith: & pub: by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St., N.Y. – Vintage Print
![Look at papa / lith: & pub: by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St., N.Y., N.Y. : Lith: & pub: by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St., [between 1838 and 1856] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bb/bbd15c4c2ab5-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 Look at papa / lith: & pub: by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St., N.Y. 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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Look at papa / lith: & pub: by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St., N.Y.
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Nathaniel Currier's lithograph "Look at Papa" shows a domestic scene of the kind his firm sold in large numbers in the mid-19th century, when the shop at 2 Spruce Street in New York produced inexpensive prints for middle-class American homes. The record dates the print to between 1838 and 1856, and it is catalogued in the Conningham raisonné of Currier & Ives work, where a second version carries a differently set publisher line and a number printed beneath it. Its subject, a mother and children, reflects the family-centered sentiment that made such genre pictures popular, and the hand coloring applied to each impression was often done by workers who finished prints in batches.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Lith: & pub: by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St., [between 1838 and 1856] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | c1983 |
| Notes | Title from item. Conningham no. 3100. Conningham no. 3101 of another version. On Conningham no. 3101 the publisher statement is printed in a different typeface. On Conningham no. 3101 no. 228" is printed below the publisher statement. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit |
| Subjects | Mothers & children--United States--1830-1860. Families--United States--1830-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,065 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174885 |
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