Sunlit forest with tall trees and leafy undergrowth – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Sunlit forest with tall trees and leafy undergrowth, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Sunlit forest with tall trees and leafy undergrowth
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Tall trees rise out of a dense tangle of leafy undergrowth here, with sunlight breaking through the canopy and falling onto the forest floor. Scenes like this were a favorite subject for nineteenth-century landscape painters and photographers, who prized the contrast between shadowed trunks and bright patches of light as a way to suggest depth and the quiet of the woods. Such views also reflected a growing interest in recording native forests at a time when many were being cleared for timber and farmland. The record gives no specific location, so the picture is best read as a study of the forest itself, its layered greenery and the play of light through it.
| Original scan | 5,439 × 3,885 px · prints to 18 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1a34436u trees |
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