Washington at home – Historic 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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A window into the past: Washington at home, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Few Revolutionary War subjects were as popular with Currier & Ives as George Washington, and this lithograph turns from the battlefield to his private life, as its title suggests. Published in New York around 1867, it belongs to a decade when the firm sold inexpensive prints to a broad middle-class public, and Washington had become a cherished national figure. The picture presents the general as a family man and country gentleman rather than a commander, a view that suited a postwar audience looking for reassuring images of the nation's founding.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1867. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7050 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,661 × 1,428 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172881 |
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