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Drawing, List of Textual Notations

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated January 1868 - April 1869 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is pen and ink on gridded laid paper; verso: pen and ink. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

12.3 × 9.4 cm (4 13/16 × 3 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in ink, upper center: 30 to 40 panes for [picture?] / for Turkish Carpets / Paris / 40 to 50 for Persian / Stakes for vines in France / about 5 feet long; in ink, center: Megalethoscope / Hydrochloric acid diluted / restores transparency of glass / clean with moistened whiting / nitric acid poured on penny / destroys miasma / Zezina ? -; in ink, verso upper center: Hottinguer & Cei / Paris 38 Rue du Provence / Ms. & Kalopothekes / Athens / Adolphe Goupil son / Albert Goupil; in ink, verso center: CD Gambrill Studio Buildg. / Principe / Picture liner / No 20 Jesu Maria - Rome / Bompiani / 45 Nicolo di Vanteggio / T. McSean - 7. Haymarket / Geo H. Jewell

Cite this object as

Drawing, List of Textual Notations; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; pen and ink on gridded laid paper; verso: pen and ink; 12.3 × 9.4 cm (4 13/16 × 3 11/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1495

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