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/8f/8fc7f15799db-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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Reading the scriptures comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Reading the scriptures
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Few subjects in this gallery were as close to daily household life as Bible reading, and this hand-colored lithograph presents that devotional scene under the plain title *Reading the Scriptures*. Nathaniel Currier issued it from New York in the decades before his partnership with James Ives, between about 1835 and 1856, when his firm turned out inexpensive pictures for a broad middle-class market. Lithography allowed quick printing in quantity, and the hand coloring, applied by workers along production lines, gave each sheet a slightly different finish. The piece is catalogued as number 5504 in the standard Currier & Ives reference.
| 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 | 1,536 × 1,111 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175049 |
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