Haunted Castle – Vintage 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.)
Description
Step back in time with Haunted Castle, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A castle shadowed by ghostly figures makes this lithograph an unusual choice among the Halloween pictures, since its subject is a building rather than a costumed child or a jack-o'-lantern. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that issued it, produced thousands of hand-colored prints that sold cheaply to ordinary households across the country. Their output drew on the popular appetite for Gothic novels and ghost stories, a taste that was widespread in the nineteenth century well before Halloween became the commercial holiday it is today. The print offers a window into how American audiences imagined the supernatural.
| Created / published | c. 1856-1907 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, lithograph, hand-colored |
| Notes | Published by Currier & Ives, New York |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,600 × 2,498 px · prints to 12 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174669 |
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