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Photograph

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1909

GUSN

GUSN-64498

Description

Rectangular black walnut frame containing photograph of oil painting by Robert Wilson portraying a classical statue in ruins and rural scene. Entitled “Omar's Rose” and dedicated to Constance Holt/ Based on the lines “I sometimes think that never blows so red the rose, as where some buried Caesar bled” by Omar Khayyam.

Details

Descriptive Terms

photographs
prints (visual works)
crystoleums (photographs)
ruins
Chromophotograph
Ruin
Literature
Print, Photographic

Associated Person

Holt, Constance, 1879-1968
Khayyam, Omar

Associated Building

Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),

Maker

Reproduction of Wilson, Robert Burns (Painter)

Location of Origin

USA

Dimensions

22.625 x 28.625 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret Carson Holt

Accession Number

1970.692

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