The tree of life: on either side of the river was there the tree of life which bare twelve manner of fruits.--Rev. ch. XXII,2 – Historic Reproduction
(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 antique lithograph captures The tree of life: on either side of the river was there the tree of life which bare twelve manner of fruits.--Rev. ch. XXII,2 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The tree of life: on either side of the river was there the tree of life which bare twelve manner of fruits.--Rev. ch. XXII,2
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Its title quotes Revelation 22:2, which places the tree of life on both banks of a river and says it bore twelve kinds of fruit, so the scene is built around that scripture rather than a real landscape. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that produced inexpensive color prints for middle-class parlors from the 1830s into the early 1900s, issued many religious subjects like this one. Chromolithography, which layered several inked stone impressions to build up color, made such pictures affordable to ordinary households. Prints of this kind were often hung in family sitting rooms as devotional images and as a way of bringing biblical imagery into everyday domestic life.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1892. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6618 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,234 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175539 |
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