The happy family – 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 rare antique lithograph captures The happy family in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The happy family
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The Happy Family" belongs to a popular nineteenth-century theme in which creatures that would ordinarily prey on or fear one another are shown living in peaceful harmony, a comic reversal of the natural order. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that published this lithograph around 1874, produced such sentimental and humorous scenes in large numbers for a broad middle-class public. The print is listed as number 2936 in *Currier & Ives: A catalog Raisonné*, compiled by Gale Research and published in 1983. Its appeal lies in that gap between the calm scene and the instincts it sets aside.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2936 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,116 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174659 |
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