This 1873 lithograph depicts Christ healing a blind man, one of the miracles recorded in the Gospels. It was printed by Armstrong & Co., an American lithography firm, and is part of a larger body of 19th-century religious lithographs made for devotional and educational use.
The Virgin Mary sits on a stone bench. A halo of light around her head cuts through the shadows of the space. She looks tired and pensive as she cradles the baby Jesus in her lap. Any new parents can recognize the exhaustion and the weight of responsibility. She rests...
The book of Matthew relates the story of a miracle witnessed by three of Jesus’s disciples. They saw him “transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light.” Suddenly the prophets Moses and Elijah appeared and spoke with Jesus. Then,...
