Reading the scriptures – Antique Print
![Reading the scriptures, New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8b/8b3bdc8bf7f8-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Reading the scriptures. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Reading the scriptures
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Titled simply *Reading the Scriptures*, this hand-colored lithograph was issued by Nathaniel Currier in New York before his 1857 partnership with James Merritt Ives. Currier's firm sold inexpensive color prints to a broad middle-class market, and scenes of family devotion like this one were popular, reflecting the central place of the Bible in many American homes. The work is listed as no. 5504 in Gale Research's Currier & Ives catalog raisonné, which helps date and identify it.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1830-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5504 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,074 × 1,474 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175049 |
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