"An Evil Tree" lithograph: a 19th-century moral warning

This hand-colored lithograph print is part of Harry T. Peters 'America on Stone' Lithography Collection. The striking and visually dense piece, titled 'An Evil Tree' or 'the Natural Heart' is a symbolic moral and religious warning from the 19th century. It seems to portray the consequences of sin and spiritual corruption (the fruits) and how actions can affect our inner state (the trunk). — Read the rest
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