Simply to thy [cross] I cling – Historic Print
![Simply to thy [cross] I cling, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/77/777a7f1c09d4-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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This rare antique lithograph captures Simply to thy [cross] I cling in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Simply to thy [cross] I cling
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Its title is a line from a Protestant hymn, and the print pairs that devotional text with a picture meant for the Christian home. Published in New York by Currier & Ives around 1874, it is a hand-colored lithograph, a process that let the firm sell affordable religious images to a broad middle-class market. Like many of the firm's sacred subjects, it was made to hang on a parlor or bedroom wall, where its sentiment of faith in the cross could be seen daily. The hand coloring, applied to each sheet after printing, means that no two impressions looked exactly alike.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5919 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,126 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175376 |
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