Gardener Watering Cold Frame Plants, Posed To Illustrate Rudyard Kipling's Poem The Glory Of The Garden, 1917
About this image...
Image Title: Gardener Watering Cold Frame Plants, Posed To Illustrate Rudyard Kipling's Poem The Glory Of The Garden, 1917
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer
Date: 1917, printed later
Notes: Frances Benjamin Johnston posed gardeners performing gardening jobs to illustrate the popular poem, The Glory of the Garden, by Rudyard Kipling. She submitted the photographs to the magazine Country Life in America, which did not publish the series. Today it is not known how many photos the series had, but the Library has 5 scenes, including prints with publication crop marks. (Source: Sam Watters, Gardens for a Beautiful America (2012), p. 28.)
Subjects: Flowers--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920
Gardeners--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920
Gardening--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920
Kipling, Rudyard,--1865-1936.--Glory of the garden
Men--Employment--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920
Original Media: Photograph
Collections: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection » more info...
About our canvas prints...
Each high-quality canvas we produce is printed on demand, one at a time, just for you. Our unique finishing process of stretching the canvas over a heavy-duty wooden frame creates a three-dimensional piece of art, and means that no additional framing is necessary. Your canvas will arrive ready-to-hang.