Painted back in mid-19th century, The Snowball Fight is a painting produced by an English artist George Williams, whose vivid imagination of a wintery day has been poured down on a canvas with great integrity. Just like the real scene, in painting everything has been covered by a white theme of snow and the greenery of trees and grass is not visible at all. In such cold times, some kids are playing the snow ball fight in the middle of a road. That’s a great joy. Children always find joy in any situation. The area is from an English town on a general day. Right behind the playing children, a horse wagon is standing with some loading. It describes the fact that the immense […]
19th Century Archive
A child with his chimney-sweeping tools on his shoulders, the regular black clothing of a sweep, a bowl of meal and a little grin of having a break for meal after the tiresome work-hours represents a perfect, happy and satisfied embodiment of a child-sweep from the 19th century by the artist in this genre painting. But, the current painting is not even near to the actual situations of the real child sweep in old times. They were more similar to the African slaves before the whites left the job and Africans were imported and forced to do the job. In old times, until around the end of the 19th century, small kids were used as sweep (kids as little as 4 years old). After the […]





















