The Four Seasons of Life: Old Age, Season of Rest – Antique Print
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A window into the past: The Four Seasons of Life: Old Age, Season of Rest, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Four Seasons of Life: Old Age, Season of Rest
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Here the farm serves as a metaphor: the planting and harvest are behind it, and the land has settled into the stillness of late autumn or winter, much as an old age does. Allegorical series like *The Four Seasons of Life* mapped the farm year onto a human life, with spring for youth, summer for vigor, autumn for maturity, and winter for rest. Such scenes were popular with nineteenth-century viewers, who read them as moral lessons about aging as well as views of rural work.
| Original scan | 8,122 × 6,535 px · prints to 27 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 4 |
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