Life on the farm / drawn by Herrick, 1867. – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Life on the farm / drawn by Herrick, 1867.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Life on the farm / drawn by Herrick, 1867.
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Published across two facing pages of *Harper's Weekly* on August 10, 1867, "Life on the Farm" was drawn by an artist identified only as Herrick and reproduced as a wood engraving. Wood engraving let a weekly magazine print detailed scenes of ordinary life alongside its news and fiction, and the 1860s were a busy period for such rural genre pictures. The piece is a useful record of how a national audience, many of them city readers, was shown the work and routines of farm life in the years after the Civil War. Its two-page spread also shows how the magazine used large illustrations to hold readers' attention.
| Created / published | 1867 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 August 10, pp. 504-505. |
| Subjects | Farming--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,244 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177450 |
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