Reading the Bible – Antique 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Reading the Bible in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Reading the Bible
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Nathaniel Currier issued this hand-colored lithograph in New York around 1848, when his shop was turning out sentimental and domestic scenes for a broad middle-class market. Titled "Reading the Bible," it belongs to a large group of Currier prints that treated Scripture reading as a quiet family ritual, often showing a parent or elder with children gathered by lamplight or a hearth. Such images were cheap enough to hang in ordinary parlors and reflected the Protestant household devotion that was widespread in antebellum America. The catalog number, 5501, in the Gale Research raisonné places it among Currier's documented output of the decade.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1848. |
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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. 5501 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,137 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175048 |
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