'The May-pole', 1866. Artist: Charles Cousen.
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2-692-813 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images
'The May-pole', 1866. 19th century imagining of Elizabethans celebrating May Day, an annual European tradition thought to have originated as a pagan fertility rite. Young women dance and wind ribbons around the phallic pole, erected around 1 May or at Midsummer.
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Creator
- Charles Cousen, attributed to: :
After
- Joseph Nash: British; English: Artist, draughtsman, painter
Digital Image Size
Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3600x4591
File Size : 16,141kb
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- 1L
- 0580033011
- 2-692-813
- 2692813
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