The baptism / Clare Leighton. – Historic Print
![The baptism / Clare Leighton., [between 1948 and 1950] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/dc/dc545be3ff39-L.webp)
(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 baptism / Clare Leighton. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The baptism / Clare Leighton.
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Clare Leighton's wood engraving shows a baptism in North Carolina, a subject that rural Black Baptist and other churches in the South had long observed at creeks and rivers. The print was made in the late 1940s and later appeared in *The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore*, published by Duke University Press in 1952, which gathered regional customs and beliefs. Leighton, an English-born artist who lived in the United States, was known for her precise, carefully cut line work on rural life, and this impression is numbered 50 of 150. Its appearance in a folklore volume shows how contemporary artists were used to record religious practices that were rarely documented in other ways.
| Created / published | [between 1948 and 1950] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving ; 18 x 12.3 cm. (image), 22 x 17 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Wood engravings 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Signed and titled in pencil. Edition 50/150. Copyright by David R. Leighton. Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, v. 1. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1952, oppo. p. 226. Exhibited in: Life of the people: Realist prints and drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948, Library of Congress, 1999. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:015.241 |
| Subjects | African Americans--Spiritual life--North Carolina--1940-1950. Baptisms--North Carolina--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,782 × 4,682 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220148 |
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