But Other Fell into Good Ground…
A farmhand sows seeds in the springtime, most likely taken in the Italian countryside. A dealer in rare coins along with his brother Henry, Philadelphia resident Samuel Hudson Chapman was an accomplished photographer and president of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia at the time of publication.
The following copy accompanies the work opposite, from the King James Version of the Bible’s Book of Matthew: “But other fell into Good Ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.”
