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Home sweet home / J.F. Queen after [...] Weyngaerdt. – Historic Print

Home sweet home / J.F. Queen after [...] Weyngaerdt., Phila. : Published by Duval & Hunter, c1871. — antique lithograph
Home sweet home / J.F. Queen after [...] Weyngaerdt., Phila. : Published by Duval & Hunter, c1871.. Antique lithograph from the Family Life collection.

(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: Home sweet home / J.F. Queen after [...] Weyngaerdt., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Home sweet home / J.F. Queen after [...] Weyngaerdt.

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Published in Philadelphia around 1871 by Duval & Hunter, this chromolithograph takes its title from the familiar phrase "Home sweet home" and shows a scene of rural domestic life. J.F. Queen made the print after a work by Weyngaerdt, and its copyright registration in 1871 places it early in a boom in color prints. Chromolithography had become cheaper and more refined by the 1870s, letting American publishers sell sentimental images of farm and village life to middle-class households. The print reflects the era's taste for pictures that celebrated the countryside as a place of comfort and family.

Created / publishedPhila. : Published by Duval & Hunter, c1871.
Medium1 print : chromolithograph.
GenreGenre prints 1870-1880.Chromolithographs Color 1870-1880.
Notes12790 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright 1871.
SubjectsCountry life--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,451 × 1,161 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216181

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