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1943

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Album Page, Vieille Maison, Lisieux

This is a Album page. It was created by Whitney Warren Jr.. It is dated June 12, 1889 and we acquired it in 1943. Its medium is graphite on cream wove paper on secondary paperboard support with painted gold surface tipped into binding with fabric. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Mrs. William Greenough. It is credited Gift of Mrs. William Greenough.

Its dimensions are

30.9 x 23.6 cm (12 3/16 x 9 5/16 in.), irregular; mount: 31.5 x 24.1 cm (12 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.), irregular

It is signed

Recto, inscribed in graphite, lower right of inscriptions: Whitney Warren.

It is inscribed

Recto, in graphite, upper right corner: 74; bottom right corner: 61; to right of drawing: Note - water sheds and large dormer / of tile, not slate -; below drawing: Vieille Maison / Lisieux / 12 Juin 1889 - / Whitney Warren; at bottom center: Pour le cour de Monsieur Julien. Verso, in graphite: board is divided vertically into three sections by repeated graphite lines. In center section at top: original sketches / Whitney Warren / O R I G I.. (written faintly on a ruled line).

Cite this object as

Album Page, Vieille Maison, Lisieux; Whitney Warren Jr. (American, 1864–1943); France; graphite on cream wove paper on secondary paperboard support with painted gold surface tipped into binding with fabric; 30.9 x 23.6 cm (12 3/16 x 9 5/16 in.), irregular; mount: 31.5 x 24.1 cm (12 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.), irregular; Gift of Mrs. William Greenough; 1943-51-234

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