Sujet

Autumn Leaves, 1873. Creator: Wagner.

Légende

Autumn Leaves, 1873. 'Autumn lets fall the withered leaves..."The grass withereth, the flower fadeth," and the multitudinous leaf that was spread or tossed aloft, to catch the boon of air and light from the summer sky, now drops or flutters down, a dry and dead thing, hopeless and worthless save as nutriment for what the soil is hereafter to bring forth in its turn. This, too, is the law and method of animal, even of human, existence amidst the ever-changing variety of products, alike renewable as perishable in their successive generations, that make up the collective life of the earth. It will be even so with these little people in our Artist's design, who are now shouting with innocent glee, while playing with the fallen leaves of autumn beneath that aged beech-tree, which has witnessed the infant sports of their grandsires and grandmothers, but which testifies by its own decay to this important truth. This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips the root, And then he falls, as I do'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A12_405

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,3Mo (4,2Mo) / 42,5cm x 29,7cm / 5021 x 3504 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature autumn leaves tree countryside season people child children plant plants arts fall play playing leaf art British beech beeches beech tree tree stump rustic location century Britain newspapers press print concept B&W engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century rural trees The Print Collector Illustrated London News rural life wood engraving ILN newspaper Regionalism Wagner 19th-century The Illustrated London News P. Grenier Grenier P.