Our father who art in Heaven ... / designed by W.A. Welsher. – Historic Reproduction
(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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Our father who art in Heaven ... / designed by W.A. Welsher.
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Its title opens with the words "Our father who art in Heaven," the first line of the Lord's Prayer, and this color lithograph was designed by W.A. Welsher and issued by Ehrgott & Forbriger & Co. of Cincinnati around 1873. The firm was one of the city's lithographic houses, serving a German-American community that was large in Cincinnati at the time. Devotional prints like this one paired scripture with symbolic imagery, a format meant for the home as much as the church, and the "Symbols" subject heading points to the emblems arranged around the prayer. Looking closely at those emblems shows how the designer organized a familiar text into a picture.
| Created / published | Cincinnati : Ehrgott & Forbriger & Co., c1873. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Subjects | Lord's prayer. Symbols--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,164 × 1,459 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217172 |
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