The Four Seasons of Life: Middle Age – Historic Print
(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: The Four Seasons of Life: Middle Age, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. 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.
The Four Seasons of Life: Middle Age
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Here the farm serves as a metaphor: the fields and outbuildings stand in for the middle years of life, when work is at its fullest and a household's labor is expected to bear fruit. The image belongs to a series that pairs each stage of life with a season of the year, so middle age takes the place of summer and harvest. Such allegorical lithographs were widely sold in the nineteenth century, when printed images of rural life, moral lessons, and domestic virtue reached many homes. Looking closely, viewers can read the setting as a way of saying that a life's labors are measured by what they produce.
| Original scan | 7,860 × 6,308 px · prints to 26 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3 |
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