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Mock-up of Page [3] Marshall dwells... [text], for lecture on John Marshall, "Notes for 'The Opening of the Book of the Law'"
Mock-up of Page [3] Marshall dwells... [text], for lecture on John Marshall, "Notes for 'The Opening of the Book of the Law'"

Mock-up of Page [3] Marshall dwells... [text], for lecture on John Marshall, "Notes for 'The Opening of the Book of the Law'"

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Object Details

Title:
Mock-up of Page [3] Marshall dwells... [text], for lecture on John Marshall, "Notes for 'The Opening of the Book of the Law'"
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Red ink and graphite on paper with guidelines in graphite
Dimensions
15 x 11 in.
Classification
Illuminated Texts
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[included with the text in graphite]: The one great / motive for establishing the National / Judiciary was the Preservation of the / Constitution and Law of the United / States so far as they can be preserved / by judicial authority; [marginalia in graphite]: [illegible] / 3 x 3 / [illegible] / Vol IV

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