Help With Image

Very likely. I must do that some time.
Different from steampunk cats, probably.

 

So I’m wondering whether I should taking the backing off and remove the print or leave it alone. I suppose one of the factors here would be the age of the print and any value that may be associated with it...possibly hard to determine unless it’s removed from the frame?

 

OP: Have you read the responses?

 

Maybe explain why the backing needs to be replaced (guessing acidity, something that way) & why it's not a good idea to leave as is.

 

Sorry. I got one response stating it may be best to leave it be and others saying to take it out.

 

That was me. Never listen (only) to me on a subject like print conservation. My field is mythology. If silver say's the back needs to go, there's a good reason.

 

Ok, thank you.
Things are making more sense now.

 

Generally he seems to be categorized as an American Impressionist, but The Song & the other similar ones are closer to the pre-raphaelites.

Even the Met is not sure about this one, & he was on their board or something that way.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/colle...oates+jones&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=1

Vintage prints of his work do not seem easy to find. It strikes me as the sort of thing young unmarried women bought for themselves. I say that because I have, hanging on my living room wall, a framed print of this painting. It belonged to my grandmother, although my mother didn't remember ever seeing it hung in their home.

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/isabella-and-the-pot-of-basil-31098

 

Bronwen! I was Very Small when I first saw that painting in one of my mother's art books, and the explanation give to me was a nice pack of lies suitable for a four-year-old. (Some years later, I found out the real story.)

Then just a few years ago, I was in the Boston Museum --AND THERE IT WAS! I've had that shock of recognition quite a few times, but that painting is really BIG.

 

And the poem is really, really LONG, novella length. My maternal grandmother did not marry until she was 29. She was a country school teacher before that, so had a little money of her own. Knowing her as a wife, mother & regular church goer, you would never have guessed that at one time she would have found this morbidly romantic image appealing.

 

Update.
I took the picture out of the frame. Nothing in the margins or on the back. Here’s a tight shot without the glass.