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Watercolor painting of a waterway in Venice. Gondola depicted in lower left and a home on the right. Title on lower left, artist's signature on lower right. Original cream colored mat with folded inner edges, not cut. Frame is cream with gold outer border and a gold beaded inner border.
paintings (visual works)
watercolor (paint)
paper (fiber product)
Painting
illegible writing and "0,1220" (handwritten)
"Fillet is attached to / these strips, only about 4 or 5/ fastenings hold them in. / Take care removing art!!!" (handwritten note to frame shop found in box, now in accession file)
" Pingree / 0,1220 / 20 1/2 26 1/4" (handwritten note saved in accession file)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P111
FA107
Sala, Paolo, 1859-1924 (Artist)
30 6/16 x 24 10/16 x 1 2/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.534
Venice (Venezia province, Veneto, Italy)
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