The tree of death--The sinner / lith. & pub. by N. Currier. – Vintage Wall Art
![The tree of death--The sinner / lith. & pub. by N. Currier., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1835 and 1855] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a2/a2b89a37ff91-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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This antique lithograph of The tree of death--The sinner / lith. & pub. by N. Currier. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The tree of death--The sinner / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.
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The title names a tree of death, and the sinner is set at its foot, so the print works as a moral allegory rather than a scene from daily life. The subjects listed for it, including demons, skeletons, angels and the deadly sins, show how Nathaniel Currier drew on religious warning imagery before his partnership with James Ives began in 1857. Cheap colored lithographs like this one were sold to ordinary households, where they served as pictorial sermons on judgment and the consequences of wrongdoing. The print is a useful record of how popular art framed sin and mortality for American viewers in the decades before the Civil War.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1835 and 1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1830-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983 |
| Subjects | Demons--1830-1860. Deadly sins--1830-1860. Death--1830-1860. Skeletons--1830-1860. Angels--1830-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,226 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172889 |
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