The image breaker / painted by E. Leutze ; engraved by Alfred Jones. – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of The image breaker / painted by E. Leutze ; engraved by Alfred Jones.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The image breaker / painted by E. Leutze ; engraved by Alfred Jones.
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This engraving reproduces a painting by Emanuel Leutze, the German-born American artist better known for *Washington Crossing the Delaware*. Its subject is iconoclasm, the destruction of religious images, a theme that recalls the Reformation and the Puritan campaigns against religious art. Engraver Alfred Jones translated Leutze's painted composition into black-and-white lines in 1850, letting the scene reach viewers who could never have seen the original canvas. Prints like this one were a common way for mid-century Americans to encounter European history painting.
| Created / published | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Engravings 1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,151 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-165188 |
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