Christopher Columbus: Discoverer of America 1492 – Antique Print
![Christopher Columbus: Discoverer of America 1492, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1892. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f8/f8cda848a965-L.webp)
(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 Christopher Columbus: Discoverer of America 1492 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Christopher Columbus: Discoverer of America 1492
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This lithograph, issued by Currier & Ives in New York in 1892, was made for the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic. The print belongs to a wave of commemorative art that swept the United States that year, when the Columbian Exposition in Chicago drew attention to the explorer and to the nation's European roots. Currier & Ives, the firm famous for inexpensive popular lithographs of the nineteenth century, sold such images to a broad public, so the piece reflects how Columbus was being celebrated in ordinary American homes. It is catalogued in the firm's standard reference, Currier & Ives: A catalog Raisonné, which makes it a useful entry point for researchers.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1892. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1177. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,247 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128048 |
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