First prayer – Vintage Print
(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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First prayer comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Currier & Ives's lithograph "First Prayer," published in New York around 1870, shows a scene of a young child at prayer, a sentimental subject that the firm turned out in large numbers for a middle-class American market. Its catalog entry in the Gale Research raisonné (no. 2146) places it among the firm's many devotional and domestic genre prints. Such pictures were colored by hand or printed in color and sold cheaply, so they reached ordinary family parlors as well as Sunday school rooms. The image reflects the Victorian emphasis on childhood innocence and religious home life that made this kind of print so popular in the decades after the Civil War.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1870. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2146 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,268 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174439 |
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