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Anabaptist ceremony in N. America / J. Milbert del. ; M. Dubourg sculp. – Historic Print

Anabaptist ceremony in N. America / J. Milbert del. ; M. Dubourg sculp., c1819. — historic print
Anabaptist ceremony in N. America / J. Milbert del. ; M. Dubourg sculp., c1819.. Historic print from the Religious collection.

(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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Step back in time with Anabaptist ceremony in N. America / J. Milbert del. ; M. Dubourg sculp., a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This aquatint, hand colored and dated to about 1819, shows an Anabaptist baptism in North America, a rite that sets this scene apart from the church interiors and town views common in early American prints. The drawing is by Jacques Gérard Milbert, a French artist who traveled in the United States in the years just before it was made, and it was engraved by M. Dubourg. Anabaptist groups such as the Mennonites and the German Baptist Brethren practiced adult baptism, often by full immersion in running water, and European readers were drawn to such accounts of religious communities that seemed foreign to them. The hand coloring adds detail to the clothing and setting.

Created / publishedc1819.
Medium1 print : aquatint, hand colored.
GenreAquatints Hand colored 1810-1820.
SubjectsAnabaptists--1810-1820. Baptisms--1810-1820.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,143 × 1,446 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217282

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