oldmasters

🎨 The Money Diggers, 1831
by John Quidor 🇺🇸
oil on canvas, 40.5 x 53.2 cm
Brooklyn Museum, USA

About the artwork:

"The Money Diggers" likely illustrates a scene from Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker," a story that involves buried pirate treasure and a deal with the devil. This subject would be typical of Quidor's interest in the themes of American legend and superstition. The scene probably shows the characters in the act of digging for treasure, possibly with an ominous or supernatural atmosphere conveyed through the dramatic use of lighting and shadow.

𝙋𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 & 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 🎨

𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝙸 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚜📸

https://linktr.ee/hani_naqi

So beautiful and amazing 
Thank you so much for sharing

Daily Diary (DD) 
/diary ✍️🏻📸






































Sahel_embroidery🪡🧵
(Founder of Sahel emb,
Trainer of traditional embroidery)

Thanks for attention to the details 🫶🧡

A mysterious story about greed and self-sacrifice. Washington Irving introduces the characters and their dark corners in an atmosphere of ambiguity and fear. The story is about a greedy man who makes an alliance with the devil to obtain money, sacrificing his wife in the process.
It was painful.