Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit
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The title quotes the dying words of Jesus from Luke 23:46, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit," and the print takes its subject from that moment of surrender. Published under Nathaniel Currier's name around 1850, before James Merritt Ives joined the firm in 1857, it is one of the many hand-colored lithographs the New York house sold to a mass audience at modest prices. Scenes like this were popular in middle-class parlors, where they offered devotional comfort in an era when death was a familiar presence in ordinary households.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1850. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2076 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,194 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174433 |
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