The road to the holy cross: le chemis de la tres ste. croix – Vintage Wall Art
(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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The road to the holy cross: le chemis de la tres ste. croix comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The road to the holy cross: le chemis de la tres ste. croix
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Its French title, *Le chemin de la très ste. croix*, points to the Way of the Cross, the devotional path that traces Christ's walk to Calvary. Catholic devotion to these scenes, usually arranged as fourteen stations, was widespread in Europe and was carried into church art and printed images for centuries. Published by Nathaniel Currier in New York around 1845, the lithograph dates from a period when his firm sold inexpensive pictures to a broad American public, many of them Protestant families who were still drawn to religious subjects. The hand coloring, applied by workers rather than the printer, varies from one surviving impression to another and is worth noticing.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1845. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5609 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,211 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175058 |
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