1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8

1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8

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1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
  • 1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8
1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8

1877 Alma-Tadema Centerfold, Clamming Long Island, Rubens — Sep 8

$44.44
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · September 8, 1877 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A visually exceptional issue anchored by a double-page centerfold after a painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema — one of the most celebrated Victorian painters of classical antiquity — alongside Long Island clamming, White Mountains scenery, a Rubens portrait, and a supplement documenting the Russian army's Plevna campaign. A standout issue for collectors of Victorian academic art, American coastal history, and New England landscape. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 SIR LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛️ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "BETWEEN HOPE AND FEAR" (from a painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema) The magnificent showpiece of the issue — a double-page centerfold engraving after a painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, one of the most celebrated Victorian painters of classical antiquity. The composition shows two women in Roman dress reclining on elaborate marble furnishings, flowers scattered across the foreground, Greek key pattern borders framing the scene, the artist's name "ALMA-TADEMA" visible on a shield within the composition. Alma-Tadema was renowned for his archaeologically meticulous reconstructions of ancient Roman and Greek domestic life, and "Between Hope and Fear" exemplifies his mastery of light, texture, and classical detail. His work commanded the highest prices in the Victorian art market and is today held in major museum collections worldwide. An original Harper's Weekly print of one of the great Victorian painters — not a reproduction. A spectacular and very frameable piece. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👵 FULL FRONT PAGE — "THE GOSSIPS" A full front-page illustration of three elderly women in lively conversation — a warmly observed and humorous piece of Victorian genre illustration, the kind of human scene that gave Harper's Weekly its broad popular appeal. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐚 INSIDE THE ISSUE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🦪 FULL PAGE — "CLAMMING IN GREAT SOUTH BAY, LONG ISLAND COAST" — FIVE SCENES Five scenes of clamming on Great South Bay — the shallow bay behind Long Island's barrier beaches, one of the most productive shellfish grounds on the American East Coast. A vivid and detailed piece of Long Island maritime and fishing history, capturing the hard work and seasonal rhythms of the clamming trade that defined life along the South Shore. A wonderful piece of Long Island and New York coastal history. 🏔️ DOUBLE-PAGE — "REMINISCENCES OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS" A double-page centerfold of the White Mountains of New Hampshire — the great resort destination of the Gilded Age, whose dramatic peaks and valleys drew artists, writers, and summer visitors from across the Northeast. A beautiful piece of New England landscape illustration. 🎨 NEARLY FULL PAGE — "PETER PAUL RUBENS" A nearly full-page portrait or illustration of Peter Paul Rubens — the great Flemish Baroque master, whose work was central to the Victorian understanding of European painting. A significant piece of art history illustration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚔️ THE SUPPLEMENT — RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🪖 MULTI-PANEL PAGE — "SKETCHES IN THE CAMP OF MOUKTAR PASHA AT SARIKAMISH" A multi-panel supplement page of vignettes from the Ottoman camp of Mukhtar Pasha at Sarikamish — on the Caucasus front, where Ottoman forces were defending against the Russian invasion of eastern Anatolia. Panels include "A Novel Meal Jack," "A Circassian Camp," and "Fodder for the Horses." Mukhtar Pasha was the celebrated Ottoman commander on the Caucasus front, whose defense of Kars and the surrounding region made him one of the heroes of the war. Sarikamish is in modern Turkey near Kars. A vivid piece of Ottoman military documentary illustration from the eastern theater of the Russo-Turkish War — the Caucasus campaign that ran parallel to the more famous Danube front. 🪖 TWO ILLUSTRATIONS — SUPPLEMENT MILITARY SCENES Additional supplement illustrations from the Russo-Turkish War. Please review all photographs for full details. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 CONDITION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 DETAILS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Publication ········ Harper's Weekly Date ··············· September 8, 1877 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 174172 Pages ·············· Complete Issue + Supplement Format ············· Illustrated folio newspaper ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 148-year-old newsprint • Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold and supplement • Fully tracked for your peace of mind ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Alma-Tadema Between Hope Fear, Lawrence Alma-Tadema print, Alma-Tadema Victorian painting, Alma-Tadema classical antiquity, Victorian academic painting, Roman classical Victorian art, Alma-Tadema Harper's Weekly, Victorian classical art print, Alma-Tadema original print, clamming Great South Bay, Long Island clamming Victorian, Great South Bay shellfish, Long Island coastal history, South Shore New York fishing, Victorian clamming print, White Mountains New Hampshire, White Mountains Victorian centerfold, New Hampshire landscape, Gilded Age White Mountains, New England mountain print, Peter Paul Rubens portrait, Rubens Flemish Baroque Victorian, Victorian art history print, Mukhtar Pasha Ottoman camp, Sarikamish Ottoman camp, Caucasus front Russo-Turkish, Circassian camp Ottoman, Ottoman Caucasus campaign, Russo-Turkish War Ottoman, Harper's Weekly 1877, antique newspaper 1877, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Alma-Tadema collector, Victorian academic art, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera, Long Island history antique

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