Jerusalem – Historic Print
(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: Jerusalem, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The title names Jerusalem, the ancient city central to both Jewish and Christian scripture and to the religious imagination of nineteenth-century American readers. Nathaniel Currier issued this hand-colored lithograph in New York around 1846, when his firm sold inexpensive prints to a broad public, many of them on biblical and devotional themes. The catalog record gives no further detail about the scene, so the picture is best understood within that tradition of images that brought distant holy places into American homes and Sunday schools.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1846. |
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| 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. 3463 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,233 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174795 |
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