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The barefoot boy – Antique Print

The barefoot boy, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1872. — antique lithograph
The barefoot boy, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1872.. Antique lithograph from the Family Life collection.

(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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Step back in time with The barefoot boy, 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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The title points to John Greenleaf Whittier's poem about a country boy who goes shoeless and free of schoolroom cares, a theme that appealed to Americans who felt that rural childhood was slipping away. Currier & Ives issued this hand-colored lithograph in New York in 1872, when the firm was producing large numbers of sentimental scenes of family and country life for a middle-class market that hung such images in parlors and kitchens. Prints like this were inexpensive, which helps explain why many survive. The Gale Research catalog raisonné of 1983 lists it, giving researchers a fixed reference for tracing the firm's output.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1872.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand col.
GenreLithographs Hand colored 1870-1880.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0409.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,081 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172883

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