Almost 2 feet of frost in the ground --whats in the attic...

[VERMONTIS]

Sorry it’s been awhile. Remembering a house I had permission to metal detect, 5 years ago, ever wonder what's inside? A couple years ago I searched the attic and found a nice little hoard of glass!! I've always thought I missed something, and I did. The temp was about 12 above and there aren't any big black spiders jumping around up there. Cold and no spiders but there is a stack of old shutters in one corner .Buried down by the bottom where these pictures and frames!!! The first says litho but looks hand colored with a signature? Second has a cotton theme with one hidden water color behind it in the frame. The 3rd looks like a painting of a two wheeled cart with people gathering fire wood? The last is Lady charity . Any info would help! Think spring (5 weeks)=ED ps I'm afraid to touch anything and the pics are a little out of order, thanks

 

[DocBeav]

Man those are cool! Great find! I know NADA about art but I like em! Anything written on the back or maybe along the edges of the pictures themselves but under the frame?

 

[Gaspipe]

Geez two feet of frost! I've got some woods cellar holes where there is enough snow and leaves insulating the ground that I could dig if the snow weren't quite so deep.

 

[VERMONTIS]

Every frame has the wide thin boards on the back. I did see some scribbling on one board, I think pic 2, sorry the pics order got messed up

 

[Citiboy289]

The print of the man and women praying in the field is called --- " The Angelus " It represents a prayer that was said daily at noon in the Catholic faith The Angelus (painting) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is very odd that you found your also in an attic We have the same print hanging in our mud room , We found it in the attic of an old farm house in Northern New York state when we lived there years ago I have no idea of the Financial value We prize ours while not being a religious people we find it very peaceful and focusing each time we pass it in the mud room hallway

 

[VERMONTIS]

To save some history is priceless. sorry its not metal.. Scouting new sites for spring on sled-ed

 

[Ia.FurTrade]

I believe the one with the bent-over figures is called " The Gleaners "............
By the way............we have four feet of frost in SE Iowa!!!

 

[EagleDown]

Sorry it’s been awhile. Remembering a house I had permission to metal detect, 5 years ago, ever wonder what's inside? A couple years ago I searched the attic and found a nice little hoard of glass!! I've always thought I missed something, and I did. The temp was about 12 above and there aren't any big black spiders jumping around up there. Cold and no spiders but there is a stack of old shutters in one corner .Buried down by the bottom where these pictures and frames!!! The first says litho but looks hand colored with a signature? Second has a cotton theme with one hidden water color behind it in the frame. The 3rd looks like a painting of a two wheeled cart with people gathering fire wood? The last is Lady charity . Any info would help! Think spring (5 weeks)=ED ps I'm afraid to touch anything and the pics are a little out of order, thanks

I'm not totally sure, but this one seems to strike a dim memory in my mind. I think it is called; The "Gleaners", or some variation of a once popular theme. Gleaners were the poor whom the land-owner allowed to go into the fields after harvest and pick up the wheat etc. that had fallen out of the wagons, or missed by the rakes. i.e.; they "gleaned" the left overs.

 

[Argentium]

Very nice finds ! be sure to get some good light up there check every nook and cranny !