Das neue Jerusalem – Vintage Wall Art
![Das neue Jerusalem, [18--] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/50/5053ceb31dfb-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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic print of Das neue Jerusalem. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Das neue Jerusalem
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Titled *Das neue Jerusalem* in German, this hand-colored woodcut belongs to the Fraktur tradition, the decorative script and illumination practiced mainly by German-speaking settlers in Pennsylvania and nearby regions. Its subject draws on Revelation 21, which describes a holy city descending from heaven, and its allegorical framing sets that promised city against the contest between good and evil that the catalog assigns as its theme. Woodcut outlines were printed first and then tinted with watercolor, so individual copies vary in color and finish. The print was later reproduced in *Eyes of the Nation*, a 1997 visual history of the United States.
| Created / published | [18--] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut with watercolor and letterpress. |
| Genre | Frakturs (Illumination) 1800-1900.Allegorical prints 1800-1900.Woodcuts Color 1800-1900. |
| Notes | Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Good & evil--1800-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,308 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218435 |
More from the Middle East & Holy Land collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
