California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

The painting "A Reading from Homer" by Lawrence Tadema, after 1836

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The painting "A Reading from Homer" by Lawrence Tadema, after 1836

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Photograph of the painting "A Reading from Homer" by Lawrence Tadema, after 1836. A man who is presumably Homer is shown to the right, seated with a scroll unfurled in his lap. Wearing his laurel crown, he recites to the group of listeners that lounges before him to the left: a girl holding a tambourine along the curved marble bench, a young man who holds her hand and a lute at his side, another youth dressed in animal furs laying on his stomach, and a fourth youth with bandaged feet lingering in the left background. According to the picture file card, this group is supposed to represent young Phaon and his friends in B.C. 805.; Tadema was born in West Friesland, Holland in 1836 and showed talent for drawing at five years of age. At 16 he began art study at the Royal Academy at Antwerp, Belgium. At 24 he entered the studio of a famous Belgium painter who the picture file card does not name. Later, he won the gold medal in Paris in 1864 and 1867 (assumedly in painting). The picture file card credits him as having found his love of "color, finish and detail" from his "Dutch ancestors and early teachers".

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Title The painting "A Reading from Homer" by Lawrence Tadema, after 1836

Subject Art (lcsh), Art -- Greek (file heading), Islands (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Temporal Subject 1836

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 14 x 26 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1836

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer), Tadema, Lawerence Alma (artist)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18245

Identifier 8869 (accession number), CHS-8869 (call number), CHS-8869 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15799 (legacy record id), chs-m18245 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14104 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15799

Unique identifier UC114213

Legacy Identifier CHS-8869.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.4 in × 9.5 in at 300dpi
41.8 cm × 24.3 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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