[The banjo lesson] / Mary Cassatt. – Historic Reproduction
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(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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Step back in time with [The banjo lesson] / Mary Cassatt., a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[The banjo lesson] / Mary Cassatt.
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A woman sits with a banjo in this 1894 drypoint and aquatint by Mary Cassatt, a print that was hand-colored after printing, so each impression varies slightly in tone. Cassatt turned to printmaking in the 1890s, working in color with close attention to line and to the flat, patterned areas of Japanese woodblock prints. Her subjects were often everyday domestic scenes of women and children, and this one shows music making as a quiet private activity. The print is catalogued as Breeskin 156, in the fourth state, and it is signed in pencil by the artist.
| Created / published | [1894] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : drypoint and aquatint, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Drypoints Hand-colored 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil. Breeskin, 156 (4th state). Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. |
| Subjects | Women--Music--1890-1900. Banjos--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,169 × 1,465 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218497 |
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