Friendship love and truth – 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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Step back in time with Friendship love and truth, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Friendship love and truth
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The title, *Friendship, Love and Truth*, names three virtues rather than a place or event, and the gallery files it among its religious subjects, which suggests a moral allegory meant for the parlor wall. The print was issued in New York around 1874 by Currier & Ives, the firm that turned lithography into an inexpensive household product. Its hand coloring was typically done by workers who applied colors to each copy by stencil, which made every impression slightly different. Such sentimental and moralizing images sold widely in the 1870s to middle-class families who wanted pictures that expressed their values.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2324 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,241 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174484 |
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