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“Ownership can not be dismissed if a book has this beautiful manuscript bookplate.
Bookplate and birth record for Joseph Nesch [Nash]. Fraktur Collection. Pennsylvania. ca. 1830. 7979.F.2
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Ownership can not be dismissed if a book has this beautiful manuscript bookplate.
Bookplate and birth record for Joseph Nesch [Nash]. Fraktur Collection. Pennsylvania. ca. 1830. 7979.F.2
Eastman Johnson (1824-1906)
“The Girl I Left Behind Me” (1872)
Oil on canvas
Located in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, United States
The painting’s title refers to an old Irish song that became a popular regimental ballad during the Civil War. Johnson’s viewers might have recalled the lyrics:
My mind her full image retains
Whether asleep or awaken’d
hope to see my jewel again
For her my heart is breaking.
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