The song of the meadowlark / MW. – Historic Print
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(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 photograph captures The song of the meadowlark / MW. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The song of the meadowlark / MW.
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Named for the meadowlark, a grassland songbird familiar across North America, this platinum print is signed only with its maker's monogram, MW, and its title suggests a lyrical scene rather than a straightforward record. Around 1900, many photographers working in the pictorialist style favored platinum printing for its soft, velvety surface and subtle range of grays. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a prominent American photographer, assembled artistic prints like this one for her own collection, which she gave to the Library of Congress in 1948. The print was later included in the 2001 exhibition *Ambassadors of Progress*.
| Created / published | [ca. 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : platinum ; 18.9 x 15.4 cm. mounted on dark gray paper folder over mat, 35.9 x 26.8 cm., with cream and sage intermediate mounts. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900.Group portraits 1900.Platinum prints 1900. |
| Notes | Title on item. Signed with artist's monogram. DLC FBJ label no. 135. DLC Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. DLC Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. DLC Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001, p. 184. Exhibited: Ambassadors of progress, 2001-2003. DLC |
| Subjects | Women--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,255 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142717 |
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