View from upper veranda, El Mandara, Tangier, Morocco, by Hester Caldwell Oakley (1871-1905)

Works by Oakley Family Members

Object Details

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Date unkown

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Watercolor on paper

Dimensions

6 1/2 x 12 in.

Classification

Drawings-watercolors

Credit Line:

Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2015

Description

[verso in graphite]: Tangier, Morocco / View fr. Upper veranda / Villa Oakley / El Mandara [?] / ptd. By Hester OakleyEl Mandara or The Mountain was the name of the hillside house built by Oakley's aunts Georgiana and Isabel in the mid-1880s. Hester Caldwell Oakley Ward was Oakley's sister.

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