The Branch cannot bear fruit, except it abide in the vine – Historic Reproduction
![The Branch cannot bear fruit, except it abide in the vine, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1872. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/50/5087721ba720-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.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The Branch cannot bear fruit, except it abide in the vine. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Branch cannot bear fruit, except it abide in the vine
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Its title is a line from the Gospel of John, "The branch cannot bear fruit, except it abide in the vine" (John 15:4), which marks it as a religious subject within a firm better known for landscapes and scenes of everyday American life. Currier & Ives, the New York lithography house that issued prints from the 1830s into the early 1900s, sold large numbers of moral and devotional images alongside its sporting, political and western scenes. Prints like this one, dated 1872, were inexpensive enough to hang in parlors and family rooms, where the image of a branch drawing life from the vine, a metaphor for faith and dependence, would have been familiar to most viewers.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1872. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0722. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,082 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-123804 |
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