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Roses

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1885

GUSN

GUSN-4579

Description

Black ink with brown tints added; two women dressed in classical fashion, hair worn up with bands behind ears; dresses simple, loose draper; women on left offers rose to woman on right whose left hand rests on basket of roses.

Details

Descriptive Terms

lithographs
ink
lithography
paper (fiber product)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Classical
floral patterns
rose (genus)
Picture
Unidentified Paper
Ink
Lithography
Rose
Classical Figure
Picture

Inscription

""Roses. From a Drawing by M. Walker/Leighton Bros.""

Associated Building

Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),

Maker

After Walker, M. (Artist)
Possibly Leighton Bros. (Publisher)

Dimensions

13.063 x 17 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.773

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