Infancy of the virgin: infancia del virgen / enfance de la vierge – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Infancy of the virgin: infancia del virgen / enfance de la vierge. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Infancy of the virgin: infancia del virgen / enfance de la vierge
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The title appears in English, Spanish, and French, which suggests this Currier lithograph was adapted from a European devotional painting of the Virgin Mary as a child. The subject comes from the story of Mary's infancy, a tradition rooted in the apocryphal Protoevangelium of James and taken up by Catholic artists for centuries. Published in New York around 1849, the print reflects the period when Nathaniel Currier sold inexpensive lithographs to a broad American public, including many buyers drawn to religious images. It remains a useful example of how the firm reproduced familiar sacred subjects for a mass market.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1849. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3306 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,205 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174756 |
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