Two children carrying a flower vase, "Can I forget thee? – Historic Print
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A window into the past: Two children carrying a flower vase, "Can I forget thee?, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Two children carrying a flower vase, "Can I forget thee?
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Two children strain together under a heavy flower vase, and the effort in their small bodies, more than any face, carries the mood of devotion rather than play. The title, "Can I forget thee?", echoes Isaiah 49:15, where God asks whether a mother could forget her child, a verse that nineteenth-century religious and sentimental imagery drew on often. Prints like this were popular in that period, when engravings and illustrated cards carried gentle moral messages into family homes. The angel-and-fairy grouping on the board suggests how such scenes blurred the sacred with the sentimental.
| Original scan | 645 × 878 px |
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| Reference | Angels108 |
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