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Were you there when they crucified my Lord : a Negro spiritual in illustrations / by Allan Rohan Crite.
LIBRA 704.9485 C867
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks N8053 .C7 1944
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crite, Allan Rohan, 1910-2007, artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ--Art.
- Jesus Christ.
- Jesus Christ--Crucifixion--Pictorial works.
- Spirituals (Songs).
- Genre:
- Spirituals (Songs)
- Physical Description:
- 93 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1944.
- Summary:
- "Illustrated devotional book by African American artist, Allan Crite (1910-2007) of Boston, visually depicting the verses of the African American spiritual, 'Were You There When They Crucified My Lord.' Thirty-nine full-page illustrations show Biblical scenes of Christ's passion, death, resurrection, and ascension including several scenes from the Christian Liturgy of the Eucharist paralleling those events. A devout Episcopalian, Crite's pen and ink technique of black and white illustration in Were You There When They Crucified My Lord allows for each figure--Christ, the priest, and accompanying disciples and angels--to appear to have Black features." -- Bookseller's description.
- Notes:
- Music for the spiritual: page [13].
- Introduction by Kenneth John Conant.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Copy: Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection
- OCLC:
- 1017447
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