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Two angels with a white dove, die-cut scrap – Antique Wall Art

Two angels with a white dove, die-cut scrap — historic image
Two angels with a white dove, die-cut scrap. Historic image from the Religious collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Two angels with a white dove, die-cut scrap 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.

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Two angels with a white dove, die-cut scrap

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Two winged angels hover over a single white dove, a motif that turns up again and again on Victorian scrap, the small die-cut paper pictures sold for pasting into albums and cards. Scraps like this were produced in large numbers by chromolithographic printers, often in Germany, England and the United States, and they were prized for their delicate cut edges and bright, layered colors. Angels and doves carried sentimental weight in the 19th century, standing for peace, the soul and divine blessing, so such scraps were exchanged as tokens of affection and used to decorate greeting cards, valentines and scrapbooks. Look closely at the thin embossed edges and the way the figures are built up from separate pieces of color.

Original scan704 × 875 px
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