Religion

One hallmark of the American experience captured in the Museum's collections is the nation's broad diversity of religious faiths. Artifacts range from Thomas Jefferson's Bible to a huge "Sunstone" sculpture carved for a Mormon temple in Illinois in 1844 to a household shrine from the home of a Pueblo Indian in the 1990s. Furniture, musical instruments, clothing, cooking ware, and thousands of prints and figures in the collections have all played roles in the religious lives of Americans. The most comprehensive collections include artifacts from Jewish and Christian European Americans, Catholic Latinos, Protestant Arab Americans, Buddhist and Christian Asian Pacific Americans, and Protestant African Americans. One notable group is the Vidal Collection of carved figures known as santos and other folk religious material from the practice of Santeria in Puerto Rico.

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1937
maker
Kloss, Gene
ID Number
GA.19276
catalog number
19276
accession number
170056
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Location
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date made
c. 1920
Associated Date
20th century
graphic artist
Hart, George O.
ID Number
GA.14179
catalog number
14179
accession number
92987
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Location
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date made
c. 1930
c.1930
Associated Date
c. 1930
maker
Nash, Willard
ID Number
GA.22251
catalog number
22251
accession number
272554
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Location
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Date made
1951
Associated Date
1951
graphic artist
Barrios, B
printer
Kistler, Lynton R.
ID Number
1978.0650.0984
accession number
1978.0650
catalog number
1978.0650.0984
78.0650.0984
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Location
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date made
nineteenth century
original artist
Allori, Cristofano
graphic artist
Lasinio, Giovanni Paolo
ID Number
GA.14233.29
accession number
94830
catalog number
14233.29
Currently not on view
Location
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date made
1774
artist attribution
Velazquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
engraver
Green, Valentine
delineator
Farington, George
ID Number
GA.20769
catalog number
20769
accession number
226630
Currently not on view
Location
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date made
nineteenth century
original artist
Veit, Philipp
graphic artist
Ludy, Friedrich August
ID Number
GA.14233.45
accession number
94830
catalog number
14233.45
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Location
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Date made
1800-1899
ID Number
CL.310074.01
catalog number
310074.01
accession number
310074
Currently not on view
Location
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Date made
1867
graphic artist
Henriquel-Dupont, Louis Pierre
original artist
Correggio
publisher
Goupil & Cie.
ID Number
GA.15453
catalog number
15453
accession number
94830
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Location
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date made
nineteenth century
original artist
Le Sueur, Eustache
graphic artist
Morelli, Stanislao
ID Number
GA.14233.27
accession number
94830
catalog number
14233.27
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Location
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ID Number
1996.0111.25
accession number
1996.0111
catalog number
1996.0111.25
Mezzotint after painting by Rembrandt once in the Gallery at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2.
Description
Mezzotint after painting by Rembrandt once in the Gallery at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2. Marsh probably wrote the numeral 33 in pencil in the lower right margin. Notation on mounting sheet indicates the print was taken out for framing in 1894. SI Secretary's Library stamp embossed in lower left margin.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1781
original artist
Rembrandt van Rijn
publisher
Boydell, John
engraver
Murphy, John
ID Number
1978.0534.03.35
accession number
1978.0534
catalog number
1978.0534.03.35
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Location
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Date made
c. 1850
date made
ca 1800
graphic artist
Melish, John
ID Number
1985.0303.05
accession number
1985.0303
catalog number
1985.0303.05
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Location
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ID Number
1997.0401.32
accession number
1997.0401
catalog number
1997.0401.32
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Location
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ID Number
GA.15745.06
catalog number
15745.06
accession number
94830
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
engraver
Rembrandt van Rijn
ID Number
GA.01459
catalog number
01459
accession number
20802
Title attribution from the British Museum online catalogue. Signed in the plate " DvB in." [invenit]. Vinckboons's original drawing is in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg.Currently not on view
Description
Title attribution from the British Museum online catalogue. Signed in the plate " DvB in." [invenit]. Vinckboons's original drawing is in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
17th century
graphic artist
Visscher, Nicolaes Jansz
original artist
Vinckboons, David
ID Number
1978.0534.05
accession number
1978.0534
catalog number
1978.0534.05
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
original artist
unknown
graphic artist
unknown
ID Number
GA.14233.30
accession number
94830
catalog number
14233.30
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
nineteenth century
original artist
Overbeck, Johann Friedrich
publisher
Dopter
graphic artist
unknown
ID Number
GA.14233.16
accession number
94830
catalog number
14233.16
Engraving after painting formerly attributed to Eustache Le Sueur once in the Salon at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, attributed provisionally to Thomas Gousse. Print removed from George P.
Description
Engraving after painting formerly attributed to Eustache Le Sueur once in the Salon at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, attributed provisionally to Thomas Gousse. Print removed from George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 2.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1773
maker
A. B. & W. Transit Company
artist attribution
Le Sueur, Eustache
publisher
Boydell, John
engraver
Aliamet, Francois Germain
ID Number
1978.0534.03.40
accession number
1978.0534
catalog number
1978.0534.03.40
Currently not on view
Location
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date made
1924
Artist
Miller, Benjamin
Associated Name
Bernard, Allen W.
maker
Miller, Benjamin
ID Number
2016.0084.014
accession number
2016.0084
catalog number
2016.0084.014
Currently not on view
Location
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ID Number
GA.01146
catalog number
01146
accession number
20593
Line engraving from original painting by Salvator Rosa once in the Gallery at Houghton, now in State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol.
Description
Line engraving from original painting by Salvator Rosa once in the Gallery at Houghton, now in State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Print tipped onto sheet bound in George P. Marsh’s copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1.This is the smaller of two engravings after Rosa's painting included in the Houghton Gallery set; it was delineated by Richard Earlom and engraved by J. B. Michel.
Claiming that this print in volume one was “too small for such a capital picture,” the publisher introduced another larger version for volume two, also delineated by Earlom but engraved by Simon Ravenet. It had first appeared in Boydell’s series, A Collection of Prints Engraved after the Most Capital Paintings in England, begun in 1769.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1775
publisher
Boydell, John
delineator
Earlom, Richard
engraver
Michel, Jean Baptiste
original artist
Rosa, Salvator
ID Number
1978.0534.02.39
accession number
1978.0534
catalog number
1978.0534.02.39
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
ID Number
1996.0111.28
accession number
1996.0111
catalog number
1996.0111.28

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