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Mock-up of cover for "Pennsylvania Speaking: A Message Concerning 'The Holy Experiment'"
Mock-up of cover for "Pennsylvania Speaking: A Message Concerning 'The Holy Experiment'"

Mock-up of cover for "Pennsylvania Speaking: A Message Concerning 'The Holy Experiment'"

Illuminated Texts
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Object Details

Title:
Mock-up of cover for "Pennsylvania Speaking: A Message Concerning 'The Holy Experiment'"
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Red and black ink and graphite with strip mounted with glue on paper
Dimensions
11 x 7 1/2 in.
Classification
Illuminated Texts
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[bottom right in graphite]: project in Wilson's / 14 pointsOakley’s illustration and caption refer to President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, principles of peace he identified in a speech to Congress on January 8, 1918.

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