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Refer to Crevecoeur's "Letter III,"
Letters from an American Farmer
A. Dickson Entering
Bristol in 1819. 1851.
Alexander Boudrou
The
perspective and scale in this American folk painting are distorted, but
what "way of life" does the painting portray and what elements of that
way of life are described or evoked in "Letter III"?
Do you
think the painter may have painted Dickson's figure out of proportion
to the rest of the scene intentionally? If so, for what purpose?
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