The Spirit's flight – Antique 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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A window into the past: The Spirit's flight, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Catalog subject headings for this 1893 hand-colored lithograph link a spiritual theme, angels and ghosts, with racism, which sets it apart from the firm's more sentimental religious prints. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that sold inexpensive color lithographs to a broad middle-class public, issued many images in the 1890s that drew on racial caricature. The picture's treatment of a departing spirit reflects the period's wide interest in the afterlife, while its racial content shows how mass-market imagery could carry prejudice into ordinary homes. The figures and coloring are worth studying closely.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 1893. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1890-1900.Prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 14746Y U.S. Copyright Office Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no.6059. |
| Subjects | Racism--1890-1900. Ghosts--1890-1900. Angels--1890-1900. Religion--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,208 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175550 |
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