Our Lady of Guápulo Forever 1st Class Postage Stamp
Purchase is for a book of twenty stamps.
Issued 10/20/2020
This Christmas stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service features a detail of Our Lady of Guápulo, an 18th-century oil painting.Enrobed in a pyramidal gown speckled with jewels and holding a scepter woven with roses and leaves, a crowned Virgin Mary looks down at a similarly adorned Christ Child in her left arm. A red rosary ropes across the center of her dress and down to her right.
Painted by an unknown artist in Cuzco, Peru, Our Lady of Guápulo is from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Art director Greg Breeding designed the stamp.
The Our Lady of Guápulo stamp is being issued as a Forever® stamp. This Forever stamp is always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce price.
Made in the USA.
Postage stamps are not eligible for discounts through sales or coupon codes.
Artwork Guidelines
- Preferred File Formats: .jpg, .jpeg, .png
- Preferred Image Size: 2000 x 2000 pixels
- Artwork must be a black and white image.
- Image must be without shading or contouring.
- Text is often illegible in wax impressions, please consider the image without text, or make the text as large as possible (7pt minimum) and select a larger stamp.
- We are unable to work from photographs or scanned images.
- Provide us with the image as you would like it to appear in the final wax impression.
- Please note, the image will be reversed when engraved the seal face in order to create a positive impression in the sealing wax. Please send us the positive version of your artwork.
- Please provide your final, finished image.
While we have our talents, designing artwork is best left to actual designers and artists. If you need some help, please take a look on sites such as fiver.com, where you can hire an artist for $5 per project.
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