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Pictures of all the Roman Pontiff from Saint Peter to Pius the Ninth – Vintage Wall Art

Pictures of all the Roman Pontiff from Saint Peter to Pius the Ninth, c1878. — historic print
Pictures of all the Roman Pontiff from Saint Peter to Pius the Ninth, c1878.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive 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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This rare historic print captures Pictures of all the Roman Pontiff from Saint Peter to Pius the Ninth in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Few single sheets attempt what this one does: a row of portrait likenesses meant to cover every pope from Saint Peter down to Pius IX, whose reign ran from 1846 until his death in 1878. The date of about 1878 places the print near the end of that long pontificate, by which time the papacy had lost its temporal rule over central Italy when Rome passed to the new Kingdom of Italy in 1870. Sheets like this presented the papal succession as one unbroken line of office-holders and were popular in the nineteenth century as devotional and educational images.

Created / publishedc1878.
Medium1 print.
Notes4781 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Charles Brothers. [?]. Check 500 field.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,112 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110690

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