Love is the lightest – 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Love is the lightest in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The title "Love is the lightest" reads more like a sentiment than a scene, which fits the sentimental tone that Nathaniel Currier often gave his domestic and child-centered lithographs. Published in New York around 1847, this hand-colored print comes from the years when Currier's shop was turning out inexpensive images for a growing middle-class market. Color was usually added by hand, often by workers applying stencils, so no two copies look exactly alike. The catalog number in the record places it among the firm's documented works, and it offers a useful glimpse of how family life was pictured for ordinary buyers before the photograph became common.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1847. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4115 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,080 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174890 |
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