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Bearded elderly man with glasses seated in a study – Vintage Wall Art

Bearded elderly man with glasses seated in a study — historic image
Bearded elderly man with glasses seated in a study. Historic image from the Medicine & Health collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Bearded elderly man with glasses seated in a study. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Bearded elderly man with glasses seated in a study

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A bearded older man in round spectacles sits in a book-lined study, his attention turned away from the camera as if caught mid-thought. The room's shelves and writing furniture suggest a working scholar or physician of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, when the study was the usual setting for medical writing and correspondence. Portraits of this kind were often made to present their subjects as learned and dignified, so the quiet setting and steady posture are worth noticing. The record gives no name, so the sitter's identity and profession remain open to further research.

Original scan5,542 × 4,143 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Referencetif04896_SigmundFreudseatedinhisstudyco

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