Two girls under big tree with mother – Antique 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Two girls under big tree with mother. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Two girls under big tree with mother
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Two girls sheltering beneath a broad tree with their mother is a quiet domestic scene, rendered in pen and ink rather than paint or photography. The record dates it tentatively to around 1888, a period when line drawings like this were widely reproduced in magazines, books and advertisements, and illustrators often chose family life as a familiar, easily understood subject. Pen work of this kind typically builds shade and separates figures from their surroundings through contour and hatching rather than color. Because the date is uncertain, the drawing is best read as an example of late nineteenth-century genre illustration.
| Medium | 1 drawing : pen and ink. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [1888?] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,284 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-209984 |
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