The Christmas coach 1795 / J.L.G. Ferris. – 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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The Christmas coach 1795 / J.L.G. Ferris.
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The subject here is a stagecoach on a Philadelphia street at Christmas in the 1790s, a holiday scene that J.L.G. Ferris painted in oil. From 1790 to 1800 Philadelphia was the seat of the young federal government, and stagecoaches were a main link between the city and other towns, so travel at the season would have been a familiar sight. This color halftone reproduction was issued around 1932 as part of *The Pageant of a Nation*, a series of prints drawn from Ferris's paintings of American history. It reflects the period's taste for nostalgic views of the early republic.
| Created / published | c1932 July 28. |
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| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color. |
| Genre | Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1930-1940. |
| Notes | K17420 U.S. Copyright Office Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pageant of a Nation. No. 31. Copyright by The Fountain Press, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio and J.L.G. Ferris. |
| Subjects | Christmas--1790-1800. Stagecoaches--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1790-1800. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,680 × 3,800 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220678 |
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