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1890 IRISH FOLK COLLAGE CELTIC CELT PICTURE PRINT

Product Description

The2FunAdGuyz offer a vibrant, new, high-quality reproduction print of a turn-of-the century (1890) photochrom (sometimes spelled photochrome) featuring a collage three scenes of common Irish folk.

Together they comprise a snapshot view of the dress and style of the era.

The center (and largest) panel features an Irish Jaunting or “outside car” with a driver and three Irish colleens in their best dresses. An Irish jaunting cart is a small two wheeled horse drawn cart with two seats that face outward. The left panel features an Irish peasant, leaned against a wall, leisurely smoking a pipe. The right panel features an Irish colleen wearing a traditional hooded cape with covered basket.

TEXT: Irish Peasant, The Irish Jaunting Cart or “Outside Cart”, Irish Peasant Girl.

This is a magnificent piece of work and preserves a famous landmark of Dublin. Anyone of Irish descent or a lover of things Irish will find this a beautiful addition to their collection.

PHOTOCHROM: The photochrom process was a combination of photography and lithography that started in the 1800s and was used until the development of true color photography in the 1930s. While the results can look more like a painting than a photograph, the images are striking. The photochrom (sometimes spelled photochrome in America) system was developed in Switzerland and then licensed to various companies in other countries. Detroit Publishing Company, Detroit, Michigan was the only company to be licensed in the United States. The process first took black and white photographs and hand colored the resulting print. Then, using a special series of stone plates (minimum of four and up to 14 separate stones for a single print), prints could be reproduced in larger quantities. One of the reasons the results are so spectacular is that the pigments in the inks and ingredients to process the stones came from exotic locations around the world. The results—even more than a hundred years later—give us a unique, richly colored and very intense image.

ORIGINAL MEDIA: The Detroit Publishing Co. (original name Detroit Photo Graphic Company), Detroit, Michigan, originally produced the image on which this new print is based. During the last decade of the 1800s and early 1900s they produced some of the finest photochrom images. Unfortunately, cheaper (and frequently lesser quality) printing methods spelled their demise.

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PAPER QUALITY: This new print is on a highest quality, acid-free, 100-pound glossy premium text paper that allows for maximum color brilliance and fidelity for older images.

AVAILABILITY: In Stock! – Ships Within 1 Business Day of cleared payment.

Image Size: 14.5 inches wide by 10.5 inches high.

Paper Size: 11 inches wide by 17 inches high. This allows for a small border around the image for matting and framing. When matted, this format is perfect for a standard 16-inch x 20-inch frame, a manageable size for a wide variety of decorating purposes.

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