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1910

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1951

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Print, Excavation for the Municipal Building

This is a Print. It was created by Henry Wilfrid Deville. It is dated 1910 and we acquired it in 1951. Its medium is etching in black ink on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Sarah Cooper Hewitt. It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

Platemark: 14.2 × 17.9 cm (5 9/16 × 7 1/16 in.) Sheet: 23.2 × 27 cm (9 1/8 × 10 5/8 in.)

It is signed

Signed and dated in plate, lower left: H. Deville / 1910; signed in graphite in margin, lower right: H. Deville imp–

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite in margin, lower left: No 4; in pen and blue ink, lower center: 8 x 8 / 6 1/4 x 7 1/2; in graphite, lower right: 25 00 X [?] X

Cite this object as

Print, Excavation for the Municipal Building; Henry Wilfrid Deville (French, b. 1871); etching in black ink on laid paper; Platemark: 14.2 × 17.9 cm (5 9/16 × 7 1/16 in.) Sheet: 23.2 × 27 cm (9 1/8 × 10 5/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt; 1951-48-1

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