Do You Love Butter? New York: Currier & Ives (print, lithograph) – Antique Print
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Do You Love Butter? New York: Currier & Ives (print, lithograph) comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Do You Love Butter? New York: Currier & Ives (print, lithograph)
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Its title, *Do you love butter?*, sets this Currier & Ives lithograph apart from the many sentimental scenes that share its gallery board. Published in New York in 1878, it belongs to the firm's run of comic lithographs from the 1870s, when the company sold inexpensive color prints to a broad middle-class public. The question likely plays on the old idiom of buttering someone up, so the joke probably turns on flattery rather than dairy, though the record does not describe the scene. The Library of Congress holds the print, which is listed as number 1753 in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of Currier & Ives work.
| Created / published | 1878 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, lithograph |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 1,969 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174380 |
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