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[Woman, who appears to be ill, lying on couch, with three dogs looking on] – Antique Wall Art

[Woman, who appears to be ill, lying on couch, with three dogs looking on], c1903. — historic photograph
[Woman, who appears to be ill, lying on couch, with three dogs looking on], c1903.. 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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A woman lies stretched out on a couch while three dogs gather around her, their attention fixed on her as if they understand something is wrong. The scene is a staged domestic one, typical of the sentimental genre photographers produced in the early 1900s, when pictures of pets and sickroom life were popular with magazine readers and card publishers. Copyright registration numbers like the one noted here show that the image was submitted for legal protection, a practice that helped photographers and publishers control reproduction of their work. The record gives few details about the sitter, so the picture is best read as a window onto the everyday emotional life of the period and its taste for affectionate, narrative scenes.

Created / publishedc1903.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH38775 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsDogs--1930-1940. Animals in human situations--1900-1910. Sick persons--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,283 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184692

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