“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)
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and still, a contemporary mean to measure time and life. may they be treated kind.
please have a good sunday.
A profound image. Good people looking for a new life.
We 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.
That makes a beautiful stamp.
It is a great painting. I can see why it was chosen for the stamp.
Beautiful painting VP we can only imagine what it must have been like in those times.
I wonder what they were feeling, about to leave home forever.
I like to think that my ancestors are in this picture.
Future Little Italy dwellers...
A Lucca c'è il Museo Paolo Cresci, e ora è in corso una mostra sull'emigrazione fino a settembre...buona domenica, Arianna!
UNa chulada de sello, si señor.
Saludos y un abrazo.
Love the little redhead girl in the crowd. Looks like a beautiful stamp!
Excellent painting and it makes a wonderful stamp. Are you a collector? MB
MB - No, I am not a collector...
I 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.
Beautiful painting! So is the stamp.
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