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Unknown Artist — Homestead with picket fence and flowers

Unknown Artist

Homestead with picket fence and flowers

1857

Presented in the larger half-plate format, this ambrotype transforms a simple domestic scene into an idealized vision of American homestead life and prosperity.

Medium
ambrotype, half plate

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Unknown Artist, Homestead with picket fence and flowers, 1857

Presented in the larger half-plate format, this ambrotype transforms a simple domestic scene into an idealized vision of American homestead life and prosperity.

Medium
ambrotype, half plate
Year
1857
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Hand-Colored, Ambrotype, Nostalgia, American, Photograph, Domestic, Portrait, Architecture, Vernacular

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago