Delicious Coffee! – Antique Wall Art
![Delicious Coffee!, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1881. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c0/c05f8673d62d-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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Delicious Coffee!. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Few pictures in the Currier & Ives output announce their subject as plainly as this 1881 lithograph, whose title, *Delicious Coffee!*, reads like a sales pitch. The New York firm produced inexpensive prints for a broad middle-class market, with subjects ranging from landscapes and sporting scenes to comic and domestic themes. Coffee was an everyday staple in American households by the early 1880s, so a print celebrating it would have appealed to ordinary buyers. The exclamation point is worth noticing, as it gives the print the enthusiastic tone of a commercial pitch.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1881. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1677. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,194 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174628 |
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