U.S. #1414

6¢ Nativity
Traditional Christmas

Issue Date: November 5, 1970

City: Washington, DC

Quantity: 683,730,000

Printed By: Guilford Gravure, Inc

Printing Method: Photogravure

Perforations: 10 ½ x 11

Color: ...  more

U.S. #1414

6¢ Nativity
Traditional Christmas

Issue Date: November 5, 1970

City: Washington, DC

Quantity: 683,730,000

Printed By: Guilford Gravure, Inc

Printing Method: Photogravure

Perforations: 10 ½ x 11

Color: Multicolored

Lorenzo Lotto painted the dramatic Nativity scene pictured on this issue. Overshadowed by more famous painters during his lifetime, Lotto tried to auction thirty of his paintings when he was 70 and impoverished, but he could sell only seven. The painting pictured on the 1970 Traditional Christmas stamp hangs in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.