“Gli emigranti” (The Emigrants), a 1895 painting by the Livornese Angiolo Tommasi, was chosen for a commemorative stamp of the Museo Nazionale Emigrazione Italiana (National Museum of the Italian Emigration).The painting shows the pier Federico Guglielmo, in the port of Genoa, where a group of emigrants is patiently waiting for their passage on a steamer.
See also: Museo Nazionale Emigrazione Italiana (in Italian)
and still, a contemporary mean to measure time and life. may they be treated kind.
ReplyDeleteplease have a good sunday.
A profound image. Good people looking for a new life.
ReplyDeleteWe here in the USA received a great number of waves of immigrants in the past and still do now. My husband and my daughter-in-law are legal immigrant Americans by Choice.
A powerful painting. Illustrates well the theme.
ReplyDeleteThat makes a beautiful stamp.
ReplyDeleteIt is a great painting. I can see why it was chosen for the stamp.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful painting VP we can only imagine what it must have been like in those times.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what they were feeling, about to leave home forever.
ReplyDeleteI like to think that my ancestors are in this picture.
Future Little Italy dwellers...
ReplyDeleteA Lucca c'è il Museo Paolo Cresci, e ora è in corso una mostra sull'emigrazione fino a settembre...buona domenica, Arianna!
ReplyDeleteUNa chulada de sello, si señor.
ReplyDeleteSaludos y un abrazo.
Love the little redhead girl in the crowd. Looks like a beautiful stamp!
ReplyDeleteExcellent painting and it makes a wonderful stamp. Are you a collector? MB
ReplyDeleteMB - No, I am not a collector...
ReplyDeleteI love the painting! Most of the people living in North America are immigrants or their ancestors were...but many tend to forget that. For some strange reason, I never think of Italy as having boatloads of immigrants. I think that's very ignorant of me. Thanks for posting this and making me think.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful painting! So is the stamp.
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