Hiawatha's departure – Antique 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Hiawatha's departure in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hiawatha's departure
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Currier & Ives drew on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 poem "The Song of Hiawatha" for this scene of the hero leaving his home, a subject that suited the firm's appetite for popular literary themes. Longfellow's epic, built on Ojibwe legends and a meter borrowed from the Finnish Kalevala, was a bestseller in the 1850s and 1860s, and printmakers quickly turned its episodes into sentimental pictures for middle-class parlors. The lithograph is one of the firm's many color prints from the 1860s, made in New York, when the company was turning out images at a steady pace for a wide audience.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1868. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3034 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110544 |
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