Print (chromolithograph) of painting by M. Menghini of the Ecumenical Council (First Vatican Council) held in Rome, 1870. Inscribed in bottom left corner of print: "Schultz Oleogh: Paris [i.e., Charles Schultz, Lithographer]. [H]angard-Mauge, imp."…
This allegorical print, intended for an American Catholic audience, illustrates the official church response to the First Vatican Council of 1869-70, which decreed that the Pope is infallible. In the center of the image, St. Peter's Basilica rests on…