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James Merritt Ives — My Boyhood's Home

James Merritt Ives

My Boyhood's Home

1872

Evoking powerful childhood nostalgia, this sentimental lithograph captures the 19th-century American longing for simpler rural origins amid rapid industrialization.

Medium
lithograph, hand colored

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James Merritt Ives, My Boyhood's Home, 1872

Evoking powerful childhood nostalgia, this sentimental lithograph captures the 19th-century American longing for simpler rural origins amid rapid industrialization.

Medium
lithograph, hand colored
Year
1872
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nostalgic, Hand-Colored, 19th Century, American, Landscape, Narrative, Domestic Scene, Rural, Warm Tones, Lithograph

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Cleveland Museum of Art