Robed figures with cross patterns among dark trees, drawing – Vintage Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Robed figures with cross patterns among dark trees, drawing. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Robed figures with cross patterns among dark trees, drawing
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Robed figures marked with cross patterns stand among dark, close-set trees, a composition that makes the crosses and the dense woods the first things a viewer notices. The record identifies the work as a drawing in the Currier and Ives collection. That firm, active in New York from the 1830s into the early 1900s, sold lithographs to a broad American public, and its catalog included religious subjects alongside landscapes and scenes of everyday life. Because the record gives few details about the occasion or the artist, the drawing is best read as an example of how nineteenth-century American printmakers pictured devotion through symbols and nature.
| Original scan | 1,452 × 2,123 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3b51484_ |
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