Beautiful 1850s Distaff Vignette - The Red Rose And The White

Beautiful 1850s Distaff Vignette - The Red Rose And The WhiteThis was a delight to work on, and we were grinning at the results. From an illustrated weekly of the late 1850s, this disbound page had considerable foxing, a common enough problem that you just have to devote some time to. We decided to play with the background, and laid our ladies onto a canvas background I shot from the back of a painting of Maude Adams, that we keep in our files to play with as needed. I've saved a number of borders to use from

I admit a wry delight that this print has proved so popular with historians and academics in general of all stripes

Bit player to leading man in the silent era

after x amount of time

and any size frame can be sourced there

Annie Oakley

I took a framed copy of this image

and so I finally used our boss racer in something

with nearly all full size Harleys ridden by big guys in clothes that reflect a desire to appear tough in all things at all times it is refreshingly different

A real cheerful old gal

Worth noting because it is something we take for granted nowadays and was rarely represented then

Note that 18 x 24 frames are easy find and inexpensive to buy

the right one