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Album Page, Drawing of Scrolling Ironwork
This is a Album page. It was created by Whitney Warren Jr.. It is dated September 13, 1887 and we acquired it in 1943. Its medium is brush and watercolor, graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Mrs. William Greenough.
It is credited Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.
- Album Page, Iron Door, Museo Civico
- brush and watercolor, graphite on thick cream wove paper tipped into binding....
- Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.
- 1943-51-166
Its dimensions are
32 x 25 cm (12 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.), irregular
It is inscribed
recto, in graphite, top left corner of sheet (written perpendicular to binding): Altar railing - about four feet high & hand / rail - The four sides different - very beautiful. / Painted black relieved by gilt - / Thin side lead painted decoration in the shape of parrot's heads and grotesque fish; top right corner of sheet (written perpendicular to binding): continuation about / the same; Frandenstadt / Sept. 13th 1887; (inscribed in circle, written parallel to binding): 39; 51; bottom center right of sheet: ties are not gilded below / the frieze / all the rosettes are double the ... / one being black and not showing much - this is a very important part.
Cite this object as
Album Page, Drawing of Scrolling Ironwork; Whitney Warren Jr. (American, 1864–1943); Germany; brush and watercolor, graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric; 32 x 25 cm (12 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.), irregular; Gift of Mrs. William Greenough; 1943-51-119
