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Charles Cromwell Ingham : “The Flower Girl” (1846)

Museum Quality Giclée on Fine Art Paper

  • Matte Finish does not pick up glare from interior lighting
  • Smooth Surface maximizes sharpness and preserves detail
  • Accent Borders display the artwork uncropped and ready to mat
  • In-house Printing assures artistic quality standards

Charles Cromwell Ingham’s The Flower Girl is one of the iconic paintings of the Victorian era. Proffering flowers with her right hand, a young woman assumes a gesture emblematic of the goddess Flora, yet she wears the guise of an impoverished street vendor. Her magnificent bouquet is meant as an appeal, not a gift; she is vulnerable, not venerated.

“The expression on the girl’s face,” observes the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “is psychologically complex and calls attention to the moral dilemma in which such lower class women often found themselves…On the one hand, her roseate cheeks, moist lips, and alluring beauty charge the picture with erotic overtones, as does the gesture with which she offers the fuchsias, often a symbol of love. It is as though the viewer were given the option of purchasing the flowers in her basket or the flower of her virtue while being simultaneously subjected to the most searching scrutiny.”

The Flower Girl was a seminal contribution to an emerging subgenre of paintings that depicted juvenile street vendors and homeless ragamuffins. Calling attention to the discrepancy between Victorian ideals of youthful innocence and the actual conditions being suffered by young women and children, these works added momentum to the reform movements that grew over the course of the 19th century.

Product Information

Expect crisp detail and vivid color from our giclée process fine art prints. We use archival pigment inks on cotton fiber paper to achieve a wide color gamut, deep blacks and beautiful tonal transitions. Unlike posters, they will not fade or yellow, but maintain their original quality for as long as you own them.

How to Frame

Historical artworks were produced in whatever shapes and sizes best suited the artists and their patrons, and these rarely correspond to the proportions of modern, mass-produced frames. Most reproductions sold on the web are cropped to an arbitrary standard, compromising the integrity of the original artwork. We solve this by using accent borders to make up any differences in proportion.

Framing may be as simple as inserting the print into a standard size frame with the borders showing. In many cases, our customers choose to have them matted. Borders allow space for framers to mount the print while covering little, if any, of the artwork. Our images are sized to provide desirable mat widths in common frames.

Sizes 9” x 12”, 12” x 16”, and 16” x 20” are designed to be matted in larger frames, such as 11” x 14”, 16” x 20” and 20” x 24”, respectively. Larger prints may be matted in frames of equal size, the borders corresponding to the shape of the mat. Where the artwork is unusually square or narrow, other sizes may be preferred.

If our sizing does not meet your requirements, we provide customization free of charge. Please contact us to discuss the details.

Shipping and Returns

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USPS Priority Mail Express $62.99 3 – 5 business days

* International orders may be subject to import taxes at time of delivery.

Returns Policy

If you are unhappy with your order for any reason, you are welcome to return it within 60 days for a full refund. Please contact us and return your item(s) to: The Ibis 809 Grant Street Endicott, NY 13760

Your return will be processed on receipt.
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