Hamlin at Amiens – Vintage Print
(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 rare historic drawing captures Hamlin at Amiens in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hamlin at Amiens
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Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin, an American who was about twenty-five when he made this drawing, sits for a graphite portrait sketched during his travels in France. The setting is Amiens, the northern French city whose thirteenth-century Gothic cathedral drew architecture students and sketchers throughout the nineteenth century. Hamlin later became known as a writer and teacher of architectural history, and the drawing reflects the habit of careful travel sketching that shaped that work. It is a leaf from a sketchbook, and its 1880 date is an estimate based on similar drawings in the same book.
| Created / published | 1880 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : graphite. |
| Genre | Travel sketches 1880.Portrait drawings 1880.Graphite drawings 1880. |
| Notes | Leaf 62 verso. Date based on similar drawings in sketchbook. mi / 881018. BAR updated record 1989-1994. |
| Subjects | Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster,--1855-1926--Journeys--France--Amiens. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 919 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164327 |
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