Search the scriptures – Vintage Print
![Search the scriptures, New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/dd/dd4f4d58f7b1-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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This rare antique lithograph captures Search the scriptures in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The title, "Search the scriptures," comes from John 5:39 and points to a devotional theme, while the lithograph itself was issued under Nathaniel Currier's name alone, before his partnership with James Ives began in 1857. Currier's firm in New York produced hand-colored prints like this one in large runs, selling them cheaply to families and churchgoers who wanted religious and moral images for the home. Because the record gives only a date range, the exact occasion for the print is unrecorded, but its pairing of a scriptural quotation with a pictorial scene reflects the taste of mid-nineteenth-century American households.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1830-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5841 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,251 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175089 |
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