Autumn leaves of many colors on a white background – Antique Print
(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 of many colors on a white background in remarkable detail. 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. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Autumn leaves of many colors on a white background
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Rust, gold, and crimson leaves are scattered across a plain white field, with no horizon, ground, or sky to anchor them. That absence is the point of this kind of picture: it turns the season into pattern and color rather than a place. Fall has long been a favored subject for printmakers and illustrators because the shifting palette of turning foliage lends itself to decoration, and cut-paper and botanical designs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries often treated the leaf as a motif to be arranged. Look closely at how the shapes overlap and vary in size, which gives the composition a sense of drift and rhythm.
| Original scan | 7,019 × 5,100 px · prints to 23 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Leaves 4 - 600 |
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