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Object Timeline

1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, Vision of the Cross

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1860–85 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite, brush and white gouache on tan wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

29.8 × 44.3 cm (11 3/4 × 17 7/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in black ink, lower left: L.457c; verso center: L.457d, L.457d; verso center right: L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, verso upper left: Cui suas artes sua dona laetus / Et Lyram et Venae salientis ictum / Scire concessit celerem et medendi / Delius usum / To whom / Apollo / Delius [struck out: ?] pleased [struck out: joyful] yielded to know / His arts, his gifts - both the Lyre and / The blow of the bounding vein and the / speedy / practice / use of healing

Cite this object as

Drawing, Vision of the Cross; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite, brush and white gouache on tan wove paper; 29.8 × 44.3 cm (11 3/4 × 17 7/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1306

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