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1961

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Print, Optical Toy: "Temple Bar by Moonlight" (Morgan's Improved Protean Scenery, no. 10)

This is a Print. It was published by William Morgan. It is dated 1838 and we acquired it in 1961. Its medium is lithograph, brush and watercolor on paper, mounted.. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Hamill & Barker. It is credited Gift of Hamill and Barker.

Its dimensions are

22.8 × 28.6 cm (9 in. × 11 1/4 in.)

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Print, Optical Toy: "Temple Bar by Moonlight" (Morgan's Improved Protean Scenery, no. 10); Published by William Morgan (English, active 19th c.); lithograph, brush and watercolor on paper, mounted.; 22.8 × 28.6 cm (9 in. × 11 1/4 in.); Gift of Hamill and Barker; 1961-105-17

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