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Descent from the cross: La Descente de Croix / La Bajada de la Cruz – Vintage Wall Art

Descent from the cross: La Descente de Croix / La Bajada de la Cruz, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph
Descent from the cross: La Descente de Croix / La Bajada de la Cruz, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]. 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 Descent from the cross: La Descente de Croix / La Bajada de la Cruz, 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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Descent from the cross: La Descente de Croix / La Bajada de la Cruz

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Few prints on this board carry two titles, and this one labels its subject in both French and Spanish: *La Descente de Croix* and *La Bajada de la Cruz*. The bilingual wording suggests the firm meant it for buyers beyond English-speaking homes, including Catholic communities in French- and Spanish-speaking regions. Currier & Ives, based in New York from the 1830s until 1907, sold inexpensive lithographs to a broad public, and many were colored by hand, which helped keep prices modest. The subject comes from the Gospel accounts and shows the body of Christ being lowered from the cross for burial, a scene that painters had treated for centuries.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand colored.
GenreLithographs Hand colored 1850-1910.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1691
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,193 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174365

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