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Photo of engraving cut with round arched top; subject is full length profile view of a young woman, face slightly turned towards viewer glancing downward to stone pavement.
photographic prints
prints (visual works)
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Print
Unidentified Photograph
Print
Legend glued to rectangular backing. ""Lone pensive nun, devout and pure,/ sober, steadfast and demure,/ All in a robe of darkest grain. / Flowing with majestic train."" Published by Wm. L. Greene & Co. ""The Congregationalist"" Boston.
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
William L. Greene & Co. (Publisher)
Boston, MA, USA
19 x 12.875 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.769
Massachusetts (United States)
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