St. Peter receiving the keys: San Pedro recibiendo las llaves – Antique Print
![St. Peter receiving the keys: San Pedro recibiendo las llaves, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/89/8967c70448a1-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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A window into the past: St. Peter receiving the keys: San Pedro recibiendo las llaves, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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St. Peter receiving the keys: San Pedro recibiendo las llaves
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The bilingual title, "San Pedro recibiendo las llaves," sets this hand-colored lithograph apart from many religious prints of its time, since it was clearly aimed at Spanish-speaking buyers as well as English-speaking ones. It depicts the scene from the Gospel of Matthew in which Christ gives Saint Peter the keys of the kingdom of heaven, a moment that has long symbolized Peter's authority in the Church. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that issued it, produced inexpensive prints for a wide public from the 1850s into the early twentieth century, and this one is catalogued in a standard reference of the firm's output.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6295 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,171 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175136 |
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