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Rock of Ages
This image illustrates the eighteenth-century Augustus Toplady Christian hymn "Rock of Ages." During the late nineteenth century, prints bearing the image of a woman clinging to a cross in a stormy sea were given away as premium gifts with the purchase of a bar of soap and sold as penny picture postcards.
The original image was created by an Episcopal clergyman named Johannes Adam Simon Oertel and titled "Representation of the Christian Faith: ca. 1868."
Lee Kogan, "Rock of Ages," FOILED: Tinsel Painting in America (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2013), 87
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