The three jolly kittens: after the feast – 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.)
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The three jolly kittens: after the feast comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The three jolly kittens: after the feast
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Three kittens sprawl across a tabletop in the aftermath of a meal, their full bellies and slack postures doing most of the storytelling. This hand-colored lithograph was issued by Currier & Ives, the New York firm that dominated American popular printmaking in the later nineteenth century, and it belongs to a long run of sentimental animal scenes the company sold cheaply to households across the country. The print is catalogued in the Gale Research raisonné of Currier & Ives work, which helps researchers date and identify it. Its humor depends on a familiar domestic joke that Victorian audiences would have enjoyed immediately.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1871. |
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| 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. 6513 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,027 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175166 |
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