The man with the hoe
20 January 2018
Description

Has a hand written poem. Looks like the beginning of Edwin Markham's famous poem. Maybe the first drafts ?

Provenance

1862 painting by Jean Millet. Written by Edwin Markham.

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By Nora Curl
Jan 21, 15:58 UTC
Fair Market Value
$10 - $35 USD
Insurance Value $0 USD
What does this mean?

This is a 20th century printing of one of the first drafts of the poem Man with a Hoe by Edward Markham. The poem was first published in 1899. The image on the sheet is a color printed reproduction of Jean Millet's painting of the same name that is now housed in the Getty Museum Collection. The image of the painting was taken using kodachrome technology and published for Life magazine; the magazine was started in 1936 and kodachrome technology was introduced in 1935. This is not an actual hand written document and it was created decades after the poem was first published.

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