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White cross with purple lilies on dark blue – Historic Print

White cross with purple lilies on dark blue — historic image
White cross with purple lilies on dark blue. Historic image from the Easter collection.

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

Description

White cross with purple lilies on dark blue comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.

White cross with purple lilies on dark blue

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Lilies and a white cross on deep blue make a quiet, devotional pairing, and the purple flowers set this piece apart from the usual Easter lily imagery. The white lily has long stood for the Resurrection in Christian art, and the cross anchors that symbolism in the Crucifixion, so the two together read as a single message of death giving way to new life. Easter-season art of this kind grew popular in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when printed holiday cards and church décor drew on simple emblems like these. The dark blue ground gives the white cross a strong, luminous contrast worth lingering over.

Original scan518 × 818 px
ReferenceEaster (302)

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