La Alameda de Mexico The public park of Mexico. – Antique Wall Art
(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 antique lithograph of La Alameda de Mexico The public park of Mexico. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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La Alameda de Mexico The public park of Mexico.
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Unlike the street and cathedral scenes Currier issued of Mexico, this lithograph focuses on La Alameda, the shaded public park in Mexico City, with its fountains and rows of trees. The Alameda was laid out as a public promenade in the late sixteenth century, and by the 1840s it was the city's main place for strolling and social display. Published in New York in 1848, the year the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war between the United States and Mexico, the print reflects strong American curiosity about Mexico at that moment. The hand coloring gives the trees and fountains a warmth that plain black-and-white prints lacked.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, 1848. |
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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. 5392 |
| Subjects | Parks--Mexico--Mexico City--1840-1850. Fountains--Mexico--Mexico City--1840-1850. Trees--Mexico--Mexico City--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,047 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175038 |
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