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Prints and Drawings
Artist: John La Farge, American, 1835–1910, M.A. (HON.) 1896
Samoa, 1890
1890
Graphite drawings throughout; black leatherette cover with marbled flyleafs: 77 leaves (one torn out), 59 filled
7.461 × 11.9 cm (2 15/16 × 4 11/16 in.) (closed sketchbook)
sheet: 6.985 × 11.589 cm (2 3/4 × 4 9/16 in.) (single page)
seat: 6.985 × 23.178 cm (2 3/4 × 9 1/8 in.) (open spread)
sheet: 6.985 × 11.589 cm (2 3/4 × 4 9/16 in.) (single page)
seat: 6.985 × 23.178 cm (2 3/4 × 9 1/8 in.) (open spread)
Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund
2005.64.51
Geography:
Made in United States
Status:
Culture:
American
Period:
19th century
Classification:
Books
Bibliography:
Lisa Hodermarsky, John La Farge’s Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890–1891, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2010), no. 56.
Elisabeth Hodermarsky et al., John La Farge’s Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890–1891, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2010), 102, 191–93, 215, no. 56, fig. 135–38.
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