The Four Seasons of Life: Childhood – Vintage Wall Art
(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 The Four Seasons of Life: Childhood. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. 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 Four Seasons of Life: Childhood
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Childhood is the spring panel of an allegorical sequence, and its title, The Four Seasons of Life, assigns each stage of a person's years to a season of the year. Series like this were popular in the nineteenth century, when printed images with moral and sentimental themes hung in parlors and were meant to be read as much as looked at. The spring association gives the scene its ideas of early growth, innocence and promise. Seen alongside the other seasons, it reads as one stage in a life rather than a standalone scene.
| Original scan | 8,663 × 6,642 px · prints to 29 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | VAL-1 |
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