Reading the scriptures – Vintage Wall Art
![Reading the scriptures, New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1c/1cedc7c6af30-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Reading the scriptures, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Few pictures on this board present scripture reading as a domestic act, and this hand-colored lithograph, published by Nathaniel Currier in New York, does so under the plain title *Reading the Scriptures*. Currier issued his prints from the 1830s, and the firm's output in the decades before his partnership with James Ives in 1857 included many sentimental scenes of family and faith meant for middle-class parlors. Hand-coloring was usually done by workers who applied color by stencil or by hand, so two impressions of the same print can differ noticeably in tone. The catalog number refers to the standard Gale Research listing of Currier & Ives work.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1830-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5504 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,037 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109950 |
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