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Christ and the Angels Le Cristo a los Angeles = Le Christ aux Anges. – Vintage Print

Christ and the Angels Le Cristo a los Angeles = Le Christ aux Anges., [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph
Christ and the Angels Le Cristo a los Angeles = Le Christ aux Anges., [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]. Antique lithograph from the Los Angeles 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 Christ and the Angels Le Cristo a los Angeles = Le Christ aux Anges., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Rather than a view of the city itself, this lithograph shows Christ among angels, and its captions in Spanish and French make the connection to Los Angeles through wordplay. The Spanish line, "Le Cristo a los Angeles," reads roughly as "Christ to the angels" and echoes the city's name. The New York firm of Currier & Ives produced hand-colored prints like this in large numbers from the 1850s into the early 1900s, selling them to a broad public at modest prices. This example is cataloged as number 1147 in the firm's catalog raisonné.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand col.
GenreLithographs Hand colored 1850-1910.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1147
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,003 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117913

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