Fallen autumn leaves in red, brown and gold – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Fallen autumn leaves in red, brown and gold. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Fallen autumn leaves in red, brown and gold
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Red, brown and gold leaves lie scattered across the ground, the colors of the season caught at the moment they drop from the trees. Pictures like this belong to a long tradition in which the turning year was read through its plants: the Four Seasons was a favorite subject for painters, printmakers and calendar makers, who used autumn's dying foliage to suggest harvest, ripeness and the approach of winter. Close studies of fallen leaves were especially popular in the nineteenth century, when naturalists and artists alike prized accurate observation of individual species. The record gives few details about this particular image, so its interest lies mainly in how the warm palette and the scattered, unposed arrangement capture the mood of late fall.
| Original scan | 1,755 × 1,275 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Leaves-All-Watercolor---600 |
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