Love Laughs at Winter – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Love Laughs at Winter comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Love Laughs at Winter
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The title, *Love Laughs at Winter*, sets the mood before the picture does, suggesting that affection can outlast the bleakest season. Images like this belong to the Victorian custom of sending valentines, which grew sharply in the mid-19th century as cheaper color printing and an expanding postal system made sentimental cards easy to buy and mail. Many such cards paired a courtship scene with a short verse, and their humor often rested on a little teasing about the chill of winter. The cold setting works as a comic counterpoint to the warmth of the couple's bond.
| Original scan | 539 × 828 px |
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| Reference | Img144 |
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