Jesus blessing little children – 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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This rare antique lithograph captures Jesus blessing little children in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Jesus blessing little children
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Currier & Ives, the New York firm that turned out inexpensive lithographs for a mass market, produced this hand-colored sheet around 1867 to show Jesus blessing a gathering of children. Its subject, drawn from the Gospel accounts in which Jesus welcomes children and tells his followers to let them come to him, was a favorite theme in nineteenth-century American homes, where such pictures often hung in parlors or nurseries. Hand coloring, applied by workers after printing, let the publisher offer many versions of one design at modest cost. The print is catalogued in the Gale Research raisonné of the firm's output, which helps place it among the company's religious subjects.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1867. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3476 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,236 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174800 |
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