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[The flower girl] – Antique Wall Art

[The flower girl], c1905. — historic photograph
[The flower girl], c1905.. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(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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This is a photograph of a painting, not a scene taken from life. The canvas, titled *The flower girl*, is signed G. Hitchcock, the American painter who spent much of his career in the Netherlands. Its subject, a young woman with flowers, belongs to the Dutch genre scenes that drew American and European artists to fishing villages and rural towns in the late 1800s. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this glass negative around 1905, reproduced paintings like this one for wide sale, so the picture preserves a work that many viewers would otherwise never have seen. Hitchcock's paintings of Dutch working women are worth noticing for their soft light and close attention to everyday labor.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Paintings Reproductions.
NotesTitle from jacket. Photo of painting signed G. Hitchcock." Detroit Publishing Co. no. 062677. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsFlowers. Women--Employment.Netherlands.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 779 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-78001

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