When sunset guilds the western hills. – Antique 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: When sunset guilds the western hills., preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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When sunset guilds the western hills.
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Peter Moran's etching takes its title from a line of pastoral sentiment, "When sunset guilds the western hills," and adds a small sketch in the margin, called a remarque, of a man plowing and a woman milking. Moran, a painter and etcher who was the brother of Thomas Moran, often turned to farm animals and rural labor, and the plate shows that interest in the daily work of the land. The print was submitted as a copyright deposit, a common route by which American prints entered the Library's collections in the 1890s. The catalog's subject tags for cattle and art works are from an older caption card and have not been independently checked.
| Created / published | c1892. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Notes | Etching by Peter Moran. Remarque: man plowing, woman milking. Copyright deposit. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cattle; Art. works. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,021 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145171 |
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