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The village festival / Eugene Tily. – Historic Reproduction

The village festival / Eugene Tily., Bristol : Published by Frost & Reed Ltd., 1928, c1929. — historic print
The village festival / Eugene Tily., Bristol : Published by Frost & Reed Ltd., 1928, c1929.. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The village festival / Eugene Tily.

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Eating, drinking, and good company fill the village festival, a scene the record places in the tavern life of the 1820s through 1880s. William Shayer, an English painter known for rural scenes of local custom, made the original, and Eugene Tily rendered it as a mezzotint, a method that builds soft gradations of tone from a roughened copper plate. Frost & Reed of Bristol published this color version in the late 1920s, bringing older English genre painting to a wide audience. This signed proof shows how well the medium suited the warm light and crowded detail.

Created / publishedBristol : Published by Frost & Reed Ltd., 1928, c1929.
Medium1 print : mezzotint, color.
GenreMezzotints Color 1920-1930.
NotesK2700 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Mezzotint after work by William Shayer. Signed proof. Copyright by Frost & Reed Ltd.
SubjectsManners & customs--1820-1880. Eating & drinking--1820-1880. Taverns (Inns)--1820-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,460 × 1,151 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218877

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