Some Fell Upon Stony Places…
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: “Some fell upon Stony Places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth; and when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.”
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