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Illustration study of garden scene with text below for unidentified project
Illustration study of garden scene with text below for unidentified project

Illustration study of garden scene with text below for unidentified project

Illustrations for Unidentified Projects
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Object Details

Title:
Illustration study of garden scene with text below for unidentified project
Date:
c. 1900
Artist:
Medium:
Charcoal on paper
Dimensions
10 x 8 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[below garden scene in charcoal]: [Excerpts from Song of Solomon 4:16] Awake, thou [undecipherable] blow upon my garden [undecipherable]; [bottom right in graphite]: V.O.; [verso upper right in graphite]: I-63; [verso lower right in graphite]: Poem illstrn?

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