Engraved Prints or Lithographs
Michaeli Grecchi Lucchese, a 16th century engraver, produced a print of the Madonna di Loreto in 1553.
At the Salon of 1814, Joseph Théodore Ricomme (b. 1785), a noted engraver of great paintings such as Raphael's Madonnas, received a medal for an unprecedented showing of prints, notably for the supreme quality modern engraving of Raphael's Madonna of Loreto and Adam and Eve.
Abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe's Palmetto Leaves (1873), a memoir and travel guide of Florida in the days following the end of the American Civil War recounts comments from a woman named Minnah upon seeing the lithograph of Madonna of the Veil by Raphael:
O good Lord! If there ain't da Good Man when he was a baby. How harmless he lies there! so innocent! And here we be, we wicked sinners, turning our backs on him, and going to the Old Boy. Oh Lord, Oh Lord! we ought to be better than we be: we sartin ought.
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