Illlustration study of Page [15] "The Tree of Knowledge" for Cathedral of Compassion: Dramatic Outline of the Life of Jane Addams 1860-1935 [Philadelphia, 1955]

Cathedral of Compassion: A Dramatic Outline of the Life of Jane Addams, 1860-1935 [Philadelphia]

Object Details

Title:

Date:

c. 1955

Artist:

Medium:

Black ink and graphite on paper with framing lines in black ink and guidelines in graphite

Dimensions

13 7/8 x 9 7/8 in.

Classification

Books

Credit Line:

Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015

Description

[bottom right of illustration in black ink]: V.O.; [caption below illustration in black ink]: The Tree of Knowledge; [perpendicular and right of illustration in graphite]: 2 9/16; [perpendicular and right of 2 9/16, struck over with "X" in graphite]: 3 inches; [bottom left in graphite]: No. 5; [verso in graphite]: 2 of 7/1-1-2; [verso, struck over in graphite]: 137/12

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