Christmas chimes / from painting by Blashfield. – Historic Reproduction
(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 historic print of Christmas chimes / from painting by Blashfield. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Christmas chimes / from painting by Blashfield.
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Angels ringing bells above a Christmas scene give this print its subject. It reproduces a painting by Edwin Blashfield, the American muralist, and was issued as number 1020 in the Perry Pictures series, a Boston enterprise that sold inexpensive copies of well-known paintings, many of them meant for schoolrooms and family homes. The halftone process, which broke an image into a fine pattern of dots that a press could print in quantity, made such affordable reproductions practical around 1910. The chimes are the picture's central idea, a festive sound that carried the holiday's message into ordinary households.
| Created / published | c1910. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | Paintings 1840-1850 Reproductions.Halftone photomechanical prints 1910. |
| Notes | K109820 U.S. Copyright Office. The Perry Pictures, no. 1020, Boston edition. Copyright by E.A. Perry. |
| Subjects | Angels--1840-1850. Bells--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,254 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-181464 |
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