Snapshots of the Past

Victorian scrap of a child within a red decorative letter – Historic Reproduction

Victorian scrap of a child within a red decorative letter — historic image
Victorian scrap of a child within a red decorative letter. Historic image from the Religious collection.

(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 Victorian scrap of a child within a red decorative letter, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Victorian scrap of a child within a red decorative letter

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A child sits inside the body of a red decorative letter, a die-cut scrap of the kind the Victorians trimmed, traded, and pasted into albums. Chromolithographed scraps were produced in large numbers from the middle of the nineteenth century, and alphabet designs were especially popular with children and with the stationers who sold them by the sheet. The record does not name a maker or date, but the picture's place among angels and fairies shows how scraps blurred the line between sacred and sentimental imagery. Pieces like this were treated as small keepsakes, and many survive only because they were kept in scrapbooks.

Original scan634 × 1,007 px
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