Black and white woodcut of a figure with lantern and dog under stars – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Black and white woodcut of a figure with lantern and dog under stars, a historic image rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Black and white woodcut of a figure with lantern and dog under stars
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A lantern-bearing figure walks a dog beneath a field of stars in this black and white woodcut, a scene that reads more as a quiet night walk than a holiday celebration. Its place on the Thanksgiving board suggests the artist meant the image to evoke the homeward, harvest-season mood the holiday often calls up: late evenings drawing in, neighbors returning from the fields, a lamp lit against the dark. Woodcuts of this kind were widely used in periodicals and broadsides during the 19th and early 20th centuries, where the bold contrast of black ink on white paper reproduced cleanly on a printing press. The record does not name the maker, so the stars and lantern are best read as the image's chief symbols of guidance and warmth.
| Original scan | 4,519 × 2,400 px · prints to 15 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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