The three jolly kittens: at the feast – Historic 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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A window into the past: The three jolly kittens: at the feast, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The three jolly kittens: at the feast
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Three kittens gather around a feast in this hand-colored lithograph, cast as diners whose mock-solemn table manners are the joke. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that published it around 1871, issued many comic animal scenes like this one, which sold cheaply to middle-class American households and often used cats to satirize human domestic life. The humor depends on viewers recognizing familiar dinner-table rituals, so the kittens read as small people. The print is listed as number 6514 in the firm's catalog raisonné, compiled by Gale Research in 1983.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1871. |
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| 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. 6514 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,048 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175167 |
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