God is love – 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: God is love, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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God is love
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Among the Currier & Ives lithographs of the 1870s, "God is Love" stands out for pairing a devotional motto with a still life of fruit and doves rather than a scene of people or places. The print was published in New York around 1874 and colored by hand, a finishing method the firm used to make its images more appealing to middle-class households. Its subjects, fruit and doves, were familiar emblems of abundance and peace, and the combination reflects the popularity of religious sentiment in home décor during the period. The firm's catalog of such prints, compiled decades later, helps place this example among its many moral and domestic images.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Still life prints 1870-1880.Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | 7708E U.S. Copyright Office. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2600 |
| Subjects | Fruit--1870-1880. Religion--1870-1880. Doves--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,219 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174568 |
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