Happy new year – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Happy new year. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Catalogued as no. 2949 in the Gale Research catalog raisonné of Currier & Ives, this lithograph was published in New York around 1876, when the firm was producing large numbers of seasonal sheets for a broad public. Its color was applied by hand over the printed outlines, a process that gave each sheet slightly different tones and made hand-colored prints more costly than plain ones. New Year greetings were a popular subject, since families and friends exchanged cards and visits at the turn of the year, and sheets like this were bought to display or to send as wishes for good fortune in the months ahead.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1876. |
|---|---|
| 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. 2949 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,076 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174661 |
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