Victorian die-cut scrap of a boy with cattails – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Victorian die-cut scrap of a boy with cattails, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Victorian die-cut scrap of a boy with cattails
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Victorian die-cut scraps like this one, showing a boy with a bundle of cattails, were pasted into albums and used as decorations on cards and letters during the late nineteenth century. Die-cutting let printers stamp out colored paper figures in large numbers, and many of them were sold in packets for hobbyists and children to arrange into scenes. Though this one sits on a board of angels and fairies, its subject is an ordinary child at the water's edge, which shows how freely these sentimental cutouts borrowed from rural and domestic life. Look closely at the layered color and embossed edges that give the figure its dimensional look.
| Original scan | 550 × 975 px |
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| Reference | A37 |
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