The Aquarium – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic image of The Aquarium brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
The Aquarium
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The title points straight at its subject: an aquarium, a glass-walled world of water, fish, and shells rather than a single creature or view. Public aquariums were a fairly new idea when many pictures like this were made. The London Zoo's Fish House, which opened in 1853, drew large crowds, and similar tanks soon appeared in Paris, Berlin, and other cities. Images of these tanks often caught the strange appeal of the period, when visitors could look at sea life up close for the first time. The picture's details, from the shells to the swimming fish, show how the aquarium was being presented to a curious public.
| Original scan | 8,476 × 6,873 px · prints to 28 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 01333u |
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