Central Park, the drive – Antique Wall Art
![Central Park, the drive, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1862. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/dd/dd57f9114e0c-L.webp)
(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
Central Park, the drive comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Central Park, the drive
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Central Park's carriage drive was the place to see and be seen in New York, and this 1862 lithograph by Currier & Ives captures that social ritual at a moment when the park was still young. Its design was laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, and the park had opened only over the previous decade, so the scene reflects a new public space in the process of becoming fashionable. Currier & Ives produced many such views for a broad middle-class market, and the print is worth noticing for how it presents leisure, dress and the carefully curved roadways of the park.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1862. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1044. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,188 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109273 |
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