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Pope Leo XIII color print portrait, 1878 – Historic Photo Reproduction

Pope Leo XIII color print portrait, 1878 — historic print
Pope Leo XIII color print portrait, 1878. Historic print from the Religious collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic print of Pope Leo XIII color print portrait, 1878 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Pope Leo XIII color print portrait, 1878

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Pope Leo XIII, born Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci, was elected pontiff in February 1878, and this color print portrait dates from that same year, when his papacy was just beginning. Leo XIII would go on to lead the Catholic Church for more than 25 years, until his death in 1903, and his name is closely tied to the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, which addressed the rights of workers and the conditions of industrial labor. Portraits of newly elected popes were widely reproduced in the late nineteenth century, so a print like this one offers a glimpse of how the new pontiff was presented to Catholic audiences around the world.

Original scan6,798 × 8,400 px · prints to 23 × 28 in at 300 dpi
Reference03279u

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