Macbeth – Vintage Wall Art
(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 historic photograph of Macbeth. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Titled *Macbeth*, this negative most likely records a stage production of Shakespeare's tragedy about a Scottish general whose ambition drives him to murder and ruin, though the record flags the title as unverified. The George Grantham Bain Collection comes from Bain News Service, a New York picture agency that worked from the late 1890s through the 1920s, photographing theater, public figures and news for newspapers. Glass negatives like this one were the standard working medium of the period, valued for the sharp detail that made pictures useful to editors. Viewers should treat the production as a likely identification rather than a confirmed one.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,141 × 5,728 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-31969 |
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