Fanny – Vintage Wall Art
(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: Fanny, 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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Known only by the single name "Fanny," this hand-colored lithograph was issued by N. Currier in New York around 1846. The bare first name suggests a celebrity whose identity needed no surname on the sheet, and the most likely subject is the Austrian dancer Fanny Elssler, whose American tour of 1840 to 1842 set off a wave of enthusiasm for her performances and related novelty goods. Currier's firm produced many such portraits of public figures, with color added by hand to keep them affordable for home buyers. Worth noticing is how that hand coloring gave a mass-produced print the look of a personal keepsake.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1846. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2029 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,004 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174427 |
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