Kiss me quick! – Historic Print
![Kiss me quick!, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1850 and 1900] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e3/e34113cebab5-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
Step back in time with Kiss me quick!, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Its title, "Kiss me quick!", is the first thing to notice, and it tells you what the scene is about: a couple caught in an embrace, classed in the record as courtship. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that published it sometime between 1850 and 1900, sold colored prints by the thousands to households across the country. Chromolithography, which built a finished image from several successive color stones, made such pictures cheap enough for ordinary parlor walls. The print is no. 3614 in the firm's catalog raisonné, which places it among the many sentimental and comic courtship scenes the company offered.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1850 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1850-1900. |
| Notes | Title from item. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3614 |
| Subjects | Couples--1850-1900. Hugging--1850-1900. Courtship--1850-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,275 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-186627 |
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