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Saints and Devotion
Christ in Majesty on Crimson, Eleventh Century, Antique Print, 1849
Anno Domini MDCCCXLIX1849
$330
€300 · £250
Original print, not a reproduction
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- Date
- 1849
- Sheet size
- 11 × 8.3 in (28 × 21 cm)
- Technique
- Chromolithograph
- Coloring
- Printed color
- Condition
- Good. Light uneven toning, browner towards the edges. Marked handling soiling along the bottom, right and top edges. Slight wear at the top right corner.
- Faith
- Christianity
- Collection
- Saints and Devotion
- Era
- 1800 to 1849, Travellers and the costume books
- Stock no.
- BG-12228-2-24
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Christ enthroned within an oval mandorla, in a red robe against a field of green, with a lion below him and an eagle above, the whole set in a broad frame of crimson that occupies nearly half the sheet. The lettering gives the date as the eleventh century. The design is reduced to flat bands of color with no modeling, and the crimson border is the largest unbroken field of printed color anywhere in the volume.
The plate belongs to the second volume of Lacroix and Sere's Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, Paris, 1849, a work that set out to describe the manners, trades, sciences, letters and fine arts of Europe between the fall of Rome and the end of the sixteenth century. Each sheet was drawn from the original object or manuscript and printed in chromolithography, a process still new in 1849 and here used with unusual richness.
This is one of the boldest sheets in the book. It needs no knowledge of manuscripts to enjoy: it reads as a strong piece of abstract color from across a room and resolves into a Romanesque Christ at close range. It is a sheet to hang alone on a plain wall.
Light uneven toning, browner towards the edges. Marked handling soiling along the bottom, right and top edges. Slight wear at the top right corner.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.
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