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Study for "Il Convito," The Banquet: Edith Emerson as the page "Giovanni" [with Mary Nixon and Daniel Buckley at right in outline], Celebrating Completion of Seven Panels for the Senate Chamber mural series, the State Capitol, Harrisburg
Study for "Il Convito," The Banquet: Edith Emerson as the page "Giovanni" [with Mary Nixon and Daniel Buckley at right in outline], Celebrating Completion of Seven Panels for the Senate Chamber mural series, the State Capitol, Harrisburg

Study for "Il Convito," The Banquet: Edith Emerson as the page "Giovanni" [with Mary Nixon and Daniel Buckley at right in outline], Celebrating Completion of Seven Panels for the Senate Chamber mural series, the State Capitol, Harrisburg

Edith Emerson
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Object Details

Title:
Study for "Il Convito," The Banquet: Edith Emerson as the page "Giovanni" [with Mary Nixon and Daniel Buckley at right in outline], Celebrating Completion of Seven Panels for the Senate Chamber mural series, the State Capitol, Harrisburg
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Charcoal and white pastel on gray paper on cream-colored paper
Dimensions
10 x 14 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[bottom right of drawing in graphite]: Violet Oakley; [center, below drawing, on cream-colored paper in graphite]: ("Giovanni") / Il Convito; [bottom left, cream-colored paper in graphite]: Edith Emerson as the page "Giovanni" - P. LikosOakley created "The Banquet" in celebration of her completion of seven panels for the Senate Chamber mural series, for the State Capitol, Harrisburg. Friends Mary Nixon and Daniel Buckley are at right in outline.

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