The clairvoyant's dream – 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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A window into the past: The clairvoyant's dream, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The clairvoyant's dream
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Titled "The clairvoyant's dream," this 1864 lithograph by G.W. Lascell turns its attention to journalism, one of the two subjects the record lists alongside the Civil War. Newspapers of the period were openly partisan, and cartoonists often used fantasy scenes, such as a seer's vision, to comment on rival editors and the stories they printed. Lithographs were cheap to reproduce and sold in large numbers, so prints like this one reached readers far beyond the cities where they were made. Its date places it during the 1864 presidential campaign, when wartime politics ran through the nation's print culture.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870.Political cartoons 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Lithograph by G.W. Lascell. Title appears as it is written on the item. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) |
| Subjects | Journalism--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-162037 |
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