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Central figure of Pope Leo seated facing left with hands on table with book and magnifying glass; flanked by two clerics in attendance; glazed; molded wooden frame (Hogarth-type), gilt over black paint.
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Portrait
Ink
Unidentified Paper
Iron
Etched
Gilded
Painted
Portrait
""Leo X With Two Cardinals, Pitti Gallery, Florence."" Inscribed on wood back in ink ""York April 1st (?), 1795, Sally B. Keating"" also ""SBK"" scrated into back in two places.
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
Italy
11.313 x 9.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.395
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