Give us this day our daily bread – Vintage 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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Give us this day our daily bread comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Currier & Ives, the New York firm famous for mass-produced color lithographs, issued this print around 1872 under the title taken from the Lord's Prayer, "Give us this day our daily bread." Rather than a scene of a particular place or event, it is a still-life arrangement of wheat sheaves, fruit, and a loaf, with a religious emphasis that the subject headings tie to the harvest and to the everyday sustenance the petition asks for. Lithographs like this one were sold cheaply to middle-class households, where they hung as devotional or domestic decoration, so the print also offers a window into how Victorian Americans blended faith and the abundance of the home.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Copyright by Currier & Ives. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2585 |
| Subjects | Religious articles--1870-1880. Fruit--1870-1880. Wheat--1870-1880. Bread--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,204 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174564 |
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