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"Japan listens…and talks with Switzerland" [delegates from Japan and Switzerland to the League of Nations]
"Japan listens…and talks with Switzerland" [delegates from Japan and Switzerland to the League of Nations]

"Japan listens…and talks with Switzerland" [delegates from Japan and Switzerland to the League of Nations]

League of Nations
,
Geneva, Switzerland

Object Details

Title:
"Japan listens…and talks with Switzerland" [delegates from Japan and Switzerland to the League of Nations]
Date:
1927
Artist:
Medium:
Graphite on tracing paper with framing lines in graphite on cream paper
Dimensions
11 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[top right in graphite]: Japan listens; [far right, above bottom drawing in graphite]: and / talks / with / Switzerland; [bottom left of drawing in graphite]: V. Oakley / Geneva / 1927; [bottom right of drawing in graphite]: By way of contrast; [bottom center below framing line in graphite]: By way of contrast

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