Mother and child – Historic Reproduction
![Mother and child, [ca. 1903] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1e/1ef83aee58e3-L.webp)
(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.)
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Step back in time with Mother and child, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mother and child
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Gum bichromate printing, the technique behind this softly textured image, layered pigment over a paper base and let the photographer manipulate tone and brushwork by hand, which made it popular with pictorialists in the early 1900s who wanted their photographs to read as art rather than mechanical record. This print is dated about 1903 and signed in the lower right, though its catalog card is unverified and its original source is unknown. Its subject, a mother and child, was one of the most common themes in turn-of-the-century pictorial photography, where tender domestic scenes were used to show emotional warmth and craft. The blurred edges and rich, uneven surface are worth studying as evidence of the handwork involved.
| Created / published | [ca. 1903] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gum ; 8 1/2 x 7 3/4 in., image 21.7 x 19.5 cm. |
| Genre | Gum bichromate prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Signed on print, lower right. This record contains unverified data from shelflist card. Source unknown. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,387 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-130577 |
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