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Evangeline – Antique Wall Art

Evangeline, c1877 June 25. — historic print
Evangeline, c1877 June 25.. Historic print 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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The title names Evangeline, the heroine of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 narrative poem about an Acadian woman separated from her fiancé during the British expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755. The poem was enormously popular in the nineteenth century, and its heroine became a familiar subject in American painting, illustration and printmaking. This example was registered for copyright around June 1877, and its shelflist card links it to a name, McCleave, though that attribution is unverified. The literary and cultural background of the figure is well documented, but the print's maker and origin should be treated as provisional.

Created / publishedc1877 June 25.
Medium1 print.
NotesH8647 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: McCleave.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,185 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115157

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