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Jerusalem – Antique Print

Jerusalem, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1846. — antique lithograph
Jerusalem, New York : Published by N. Currier, c1846.. Antique lithograph from the Religious collection.

(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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Step back in time with Jerusalem, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Jerusalem, as this hand-colored lithograph names it, is one of the few cities that appears in Currier's output as a place of sacred memory rather than a current event. Nathaniel Currier published it in New York around 1846, when his firm was producing inexpensive, colorful prints for a broad middle-class market. American churchgoers of that era knew the city from scripture, and the 1840s brought a wave of Holy Land travel books and illustrated views, including David Roberts' lithographs of the region. The print's catalog number, 3463, places it among the firm's many religious subjects, which were often hung in parlors and family Bibles alike.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by N. Currier, c1846.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3463
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,686 × 1,219 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175356

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