Child with oak branch / EW. – Antique Wall Art
![Child with oak branch / EW., [ca. 1900] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3b/3bdee0327162-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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This rare historic photograph captures Child with oak branch / EW. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Child with oak branch / EW.
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A young girl posed with a leafy oak branch gives this platinum print its character, with the branch serving as both prop and emblem. The photographer signed it with the monogram EW, and the title was given when the image was published. Platinum printing, prized around 1900 for its soft tonal range and matte surface, was a favorite of pictorialist photographers who treated portraits as artistic compositions. Frances Benjamin Johnston gave the print to the Library of Congress in 1948 as part of her collection of artistic photographs.
| Created / published | [ca. 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : platinum ; 16.9 x 11.8 cm. mounted on gray paper, 37.9 x 27.4 cm. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900.Platinum prints 1900. |
| Notes | Published title. Signed with photographer's monogram. DLC FBJ label no. 124. DLC Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. DLC Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. DLC Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001, p. 182. |
| Subjects | Girls--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,077 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141188 |
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