Details
Creator Currier & Ives.
Title The colored beauty. [graphic].
Publisher New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1872
Date 1872
Physical Description 1 print : hand-colored lithograph in frame ; sheet 47 x 41 cm (18.5 x 16.5 in.)
Description Bust-length portrait of a young African American woman facing slightly right. Sitter is attired in gold drop earrings with red stones, a three-strand gold necklace with a gold pendant, and a blue dress with a white lace collar.
Is referenced by Conningham, Currier & Ives prints: An illustrated check list, 1203
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1872 by Currier & Ives in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Purchase 2004.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American women.
Earrings.
Necklaces.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1870-1880.
Portraits -- Hand-colored -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Framed graphics [P.2004.25]
Accession number P.2004.25