The offering – Historic Print
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(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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of The offering. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Numbered 7 of 25 and signed in pencil, *The offering* is an intaglio print, a family of techniques such as etching, engraving, and drypoint in which lines are cut or bitten into a metal plate and then pressed onto paper. Its date is not recorded, so it is best understood through its technique and the period of American printmaking it belongs to. The Library of Congress acquired it by purchase through the Pennell fund, named for the printmaker Joseph Pennell, whose gifts helped build the library's print collection. Karen F. Beall's 1970 catalog of American prints in the library lists the work, and that catalog is the main published reference for it.
| Created / published | [19--] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : intaglio ; 45.7 x 65.6 cm. |
| Notes | 7/25. Signed in pencil. DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 230. Purchase; Pennell fund. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,070 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136019 |
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