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Mock-up of Page [2] Text and copyright page for illuminated prayer booklet, Prayer of an Early Christian
Mock-up of Page [2] Text and copyright page for illuminated prayer booklet, Prayer of an Early Christian

Mock-up of Page [2] Text and copyright page for illuminated prayer booklet, Prayer of an Early Christian

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Object Details

Title:
Mock-up of Page [2] Text and copyright page for illuminated prayer booklet, Prayer of an Early Christian
Date:
c. 1945
Artist:
Medium:
Black ink and graphite with guidelines in graphite on paper
Dimensions
8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Classification
Illuminated Texts
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[lower center in graphite]: Copyright by Violet Oakley / 1945 / with permission [?] of / Reynal & Hitchcock, New YorkIt is unclear what work published by Reynal & Hitchcock inspired Oakley. Although the firm never published Saint Patrick’s prayer of protection, the “Lorica,” it did publish Oliver Saint John Gogarty’s “I Follow Saint Patrick” (in which the author followed the saint’s journey through Ireland) in 1938. The next year it published the first American edition of Mein Kampf.

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