Doctor John rose from his chair and slowly paced the room – Historic Print
(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 window into the past: Doctor John rose from his chair and slowly paced the room, preserved in this historic image. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Doctor John rose from his chair and slowly paced the room
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A physician rises from his chair and paces the floor, a moment of restless thought that the caption, *Doctor John rose from his chair and slowly paced the room*, makes explicit. The record dates this watercolor to about 1906 and links it to *Scribner's Magazine*, the New York monthly that published fiction and essays with illustrations. Painted originals like this were prepared to be reproduced on the printed page, usually as halftone engravings, so the watercolor was a working piece of storytelling as well as a finished picture. The single pose carries the scene's emotional weight, showing how illustrators of the period used a figure's body language to suggest what a character was feeling.
| Created / published | 1 painting : watercolor. |
|---|---|
| Genre | Scribner's magazine |
| Notes | [1906?] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,647 × 3,732 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221688 |
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