Norman Rockwell MARRIAGE LICENSE Signed Limited Edition Lithograph 1978

This Norman Rockwell work of art was originally an oil painting done for The Saturday Evening Post on June 11, 1955. Set in the actual town clerk’s office just footsteps away from Rockwell’s first Stockbridge studio on Main Street, the couple featured in this beloved illustration were actually engaged at the time, and were still married until their deaths. This enduring image is the ideal present for engagement announcements, and makes a perfect wedding gift.

This authorized reproduction bears a printed signature by Norman Rockwell that looks like it was hand signed. If this lithograph was hand signed by Rockwell, it would be worth about $10,000.

Published in 1978. This subject is numbered from a limited edition of 2500.

Paper measures 33″ x 25″. Image measures 23″ x 21″.

In excellent condition. Comes unframed. Comes with a certificate of authenticity.

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Francis (Moe) and Joan Mahoney, the couple featured in Marriage License, were actually engaged and received this oil sketch from Norman Rockwell as a wedding gift. In 1983, the Mahoneys generously donated this piece to Norman Rockwell Museum.

Set in the town clerk’s office just footsteps away from Rockwell’s first Stockbridge studio on Main Street, Marriage License captures Rockwell’s fascination with the somber wood-paneled interiors of his favorite seventeenth-century Dutch painters. Indeed, the building itself is fashioned after one pictured in Jan Vermeer’s A Street in Delft. In keeping with the older style, Rockwell replaced an existing metal file cabinet in the left foreground with an old railroad station stove. His model for the town clerk had recently lost his wife, and the authenticity of his feelings adds power to the poignancy in this study of youth and old age.

The works of Norman Rockwell, a well-known 20th Century American painter and illustrator, enjoyed a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is best known for his cover illustrations of every day life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post for four decades.
He also created his work for the Boy Scouts of America, their publication Boy’s Life, calendars and other illustrations, including this wonderful illustration of a curious boy and a watchmaker.