Autumn leaves and fern on white background – Historic Reproduction

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Autumn leaves and fern on white background in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Autumn leaves and fern on white background
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Rust-colored oak leaves and a feathery fern frond are arranged against a plain white ground, so the eye lands on the forms themselves rather than on a landscape or setting. Pictures of this kind belong to a long tradition of botanical and decorative studies, in which artists and printmakers isolated leaves and stems to show their shape, veining and color. The autumn theme fits the broader "Four Seasons" grouping, where fall was often shown through fading foliage and the slow turn toward winter. Worth noticing is how the white background flattens the composition, turning natural debris into a near-abstract arrangement.
| Original scan | 5,100 × 7,019 px · prints to 17 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Leaves 6 - 600 |
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