Reading the Bible – 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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Reading the Bible comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A Bible being read in the home was a favorite subject for printmakers of the 1840s, and this hand-colored lithograph from about 1848 shows how a New York publisher turned domestic piety into a mass-market image. Nathaniel Currier, working alone before his partnership with James Merritt Ives, printed such pictures in large runs and sold them cheaply enough for ordinary households to hang on the wall. Family scripture reading was central to Protestant life in mid-nineteenth-century America, so the print offers a window onto the values its buyers shared. Hand coloring, often done by teams of workers, gives surviving copies slightly different palettes.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1848. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5501 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,032 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175048 |
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