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Message:: [QUOTE="2manycats, post: 9577318, member: 13761"]Your version of this image, first published in 1769, dates to the second half of the 1800s. Kurtz, the publisher, was active in Reutlinger, Germany, from at least 1847 to 1880. The image was apparently well-known and would have been published by any number of German printers and copied by hand by the artistically-inclined devout, such as the Fraktur Collection has. Such religious iconography was inexpensive and popular, but 'old-fashioned' by the twentieth century. We see similar styles in marriage and birth certificates around here, a heavily German-populated area, or at least we used to, not so many lately. You ask if it's "real" or "original". It's real in the sense that it's an antique print, not a modern repro, as far as I can tell from your photos. It's not original in that it's a copy of an older work. As for demand, who can say? It's nicer than most of the sort that I've seen, but I don't have a good idea of the current market.[/QUOTE]