The Lovers – 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The Lovers. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Titled simply *The lovers*, this hand-colored lithograph belongs to the sentimental courtship scenes that Currier's New York firm sold in quantity. Published around 1846, when Nathaniel Currier was building his business on inexpensive prints for a broad public, it was colored by hand, so each impression could be finished with its own tints. The print is catalogued as number 4126 in the Currier & Ives catalog raisonné, the standard reference for the firm's output.
| Created / published | 1846 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, lithograph, hand-colored |
| Notes | New York, Published by N. Currier |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,114 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174891 |
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