Laura – 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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A window into the past: Laura, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Titled simply "Laura," this hand-colored lithograph gives little beyond its name, so the sitter's identity cannot be confirmed from the print alone. Nathaniel Currier published it in New York around 1846, when his firm produced inexpensive prints that were colored by hand in batches and sold to a broad middle-class market. Prints of this kind often took their names from literature or poetry, so the title may point to a sentimental ideal rather than a documented person. The Currier & Ives catalog raisonné lists it as number 3735.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1846. |
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| 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. 3735 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,052 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174850 |
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