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The puppies nursery - Print, Library of Congress collection
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Print shows a dog with three puppies in a stall-like space with straw bedding in a barn or other outbuilding.
Inscribed in ink on verso: A450191.
Stamped on verso: Prints and Photographs Div. Library of Congress.
Stamped and inscribed on verso: Exchange Hon. Sherman Adams Jan 8 1946 Serial Record Division The Library of Congress.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5393
Gift; Hon. Sherman Adams; 1946 Jan. 8.
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
New York City from 1835 to 1907 headed first by Nathaniel Currier, and later jointly with his partner James Merritt Ives. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand-colored. The firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people". The firm adopted the name "Currier and Ives" in 1857.
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