A Dessert of Fruit – Antique Wall Art
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Description
This rare historic image captures A Dessert of Fruit in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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A Dessert of Fruit
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A still life of fruit arranged as a dessert gives this picture a quiet, domestic subject that sits oddly beside the locomotives and depots usually found on a trains board. Images of fruit and sweets were common in American print culture from the late nineteenth century, when magazines, advertising cards and trade catalogs relied on appetizing food pictures. Its place among the railroad pictures may reflect how dining cars and station restaurants promoted their meals, though the record does not say so directly. It is worth noticing how the arrangement of fruit suggests abundance and comfort, qualities railway travelers were often promised.
| Original scan | 4,352 × 3,009 px · prints to 15 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 5 |
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