Summer – Historic Reproduction
(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: Summer, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Part of the firm's Four Seasons series, this lithograph of Summer bears the Currier & Ives imprint and a date of about 1871, when the New York firm was producing colored scenes for a broad middle-class market. Its color was added by hand after printing, a labor-intensive step that gave each sheet slight differences in tone. The Gale Research catalog raisonné lists it as number 6316, a useful reference for tracing the series. Seasonal scenes like this one were popular home decorations of the period, prized for their cheerful, sentimental view of rural life.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1871. |
|---|---|
| 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. 6316 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,108 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175140 |
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