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Cover of "Decorations for the Governor's Reception Room" sketchbook
Cover of "Decorations for the Governor's Reception Room" sketchbook

Cover of "Decorations for the Governor's Reception Room" sketchbook

Governor's Grand Executive Reception Room, Pennsylvania State Capitol, "The Founding of the State of Liberty Spiritual"
,
Harrisburg, PA

Object Details

Title:
Cover of "Decorations for the Governor's Reception Room" sketchbook
Date:
1902–6
Artist:
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
6 ¾ x 5 ½ in.
Classification
No items found.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[top to bottom, in graphite]: Decorations for the Governor's / Reception Room / Power of Good / The Goernment of Good / Good is the Government / of all Reality / Evil can never govern / has never governed / The [illegible] of a false sense of government / "I will [illegible] / until he whose right it is shall come / and I will give it him" / The chronicle of the Founding of the / State / The chronicle of the Founding of the / True State

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