A Joyous Easter: cherub feeding chicks beside painted eggs – Antique Print
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Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of A Joyous Easter: cherub feeding chicks beside painted eggs. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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A Joyous Easter: cherub feeding chicks beside painted eggs
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Here a cherub sits among a nest of chicks and brightly painted eggs, a pairing that turns the Easter egg into a small scene of tenderness. Easter imagery of this kind grew popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when greeting cards and printed ephemera borrowed the soft, sentimental style of devotional and children's art. The chubby winged child stands in for innocence and renewal, while the eggs and fledglings carry the season's message of spring and new life. Look closely at the painted shells, which show how decorative egg-decorating traditions were folded into the wider holiday culture of the period.
| Original scan | 511 × 830 px |
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| Reference | Easter (178) |
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