Crowded bookshelves with a gilt-framed picture among old books – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Crowded bookshelves with a gilt-framed picture among old books in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Crowded bookshelves with a gilt-framed picture among old books
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Books piled edge to edge on a crowded shelf, with a gilt-framed picture wedged in among them, make for an unusual domestic still life. The arrangement suggests a private library where space was at a premium and objects of every kind shared the same shelves. Gilt frames were a common mark of middle-class parlors and studies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, so the picture's ornate border signals a household that valued both learning and decoration. Scenes like this one give a sense of how reading and home display once overlapped.
| Original scan | 3,151 × 2,541 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 91682524_e75273fe9a_o Books gadl |
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