Poplar grove – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Poplar grove, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Poplar grove
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This etching takes a grove of poplars as its subject, a motif that suits the medium because the tall, slender trunks and fine branches reward close line work. The Library of Congress record credits Richard Claude Ziemann as the printmaker and dates the piece to 1970, though it notes that these details come from an older caption card with later revisions and have not been fully verified. The catalog's subject tracing is simply "Trees," so the image's own composition is the best guide to its meaning. Landscape etchings of this kind often invite viewers to look at light, rhythm, and the way a row of upright trunks can organize an entire scene.
| Created / published | 1970 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Notes | Etching by Richard Claude Ziemann. NEP. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Trees. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,159 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145858 |
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