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[Contemporary illus. from slavic book: reclining satanic figure] – Historic Reproduction

[Contemporary illus. from slavic book: reclining satanic figure], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print
[Contemporary illus. from slavic book: reclining satanic figure], [no date recorded on caption card]. 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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A window into the past: [Contemporary illus. from slavic book: reclining satanic figure], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A reclining devil, drawn in line and reproduced from a book of Slavic illustrations, is the subject here. The record credits the original drawing to Antoni Boratynski, but it carries no date, and the caption card's details are unverified. The card's subject tags, "Devils and demons" and "Children's Literature," suggest the drawing was made for a young readership, where the devil was a common figure in folk tales and moral stories. Because the image is a reproduction of a book illustration, it shows how such figures were drawn for print rather than for fine-art display.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print.
NotesRepr. of line drawing by Antoni Boratynski. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Devils and demons; Children's Literature; Publ. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,275 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140970

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