Astronomy – Vintage Wall Art
(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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The figure here is Astronomy personified, shown through a posed allegorical figure rather than through telescopes or observatory scenes, a common way late nineteenth-century studio photographers presented the sciences. The Boston firm Curtis & Cameron, which issued photographic prints of this kind, copyrighted the image around 1898. Such tableaux drew on a long tradition of painted allegories of the arts and sciences, which the camera made cheap to reproduce for parlor walls and art study. Today the staging reads as a sign of how popular culture pictured learning as elegant and symbolic.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Allegories 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Copyright by Curtis & Cameron. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 292. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 790 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-165012 |
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