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This and 47 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Drawings: Sea, Coastline, Landscapes.

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1953

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2025

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Album Page, View of Wissahickon Creek

This is a Album page. It was created by William Trost Richards. It is dated August 1866 and we acquired it in 1953. Its medium is graphite on off-white (soiled) paper, mounted on back cover of album. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by National Academy of Design. It is credited Gift of the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest.

Its dimensions are

10.4 x 8.3 cm (4 1/8 x 3 1/4 in.)

It is inscribed

In graphite, in lower left margin: aug 186(6)?

Cite this object as

Album Page, View of Wissahickon Creek; William Trost Richards (American, 1833–1905); USA; graphite on off-white (soiled) paper, mounted on back cover of album; 10.4 x 8.3 cm (4 1/8 x 3 1/4 in.); Gift of the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest; 1953-179-85-48

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