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[Edwin Austin Abbey, 1852-1911; three-quarters length, seated] – Vintage Wall Art

[Edwin Austin Abbey, 1852-1911; three-quarters length, seated], c1902. — historic photograph
[Edwin Austin Abbey, 1852-1911; three-quarters length, seated], c1902.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Edwin Austin Abbey, 1852-1911; three-quarters length, seated]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Edwin Austin Abbey, 1852-1911; three-quarters length, seated]

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Seated and shown three-quarters length, Edwin Austin Abbey appears here in a formal pose that suits a painter who had by then made his name on both sides of the Atlantic. Born in Philadelphia in 1852, Abbey built his early reputation as an illustrator for *Harper's Weekly* before moving to England in 1878, where he became a Royal Academician in 1898. He is best known today for his large murals of the Quest of the Holy Grail at the Boston Public Library. The date of about 1902 comes from an older caption card and has not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1902.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Purdy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,220 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119510

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