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Prints and Drawings
Artist: John La Farge, American, 1835–1910, M.A. (HON.) 1896
Tahiti, 1891
1891
Mostly graphite drawings, some watercolor throughout; canvas cover, 45 leaves, 30 filled
9.684 × 17.8 cm (3 13/16 × 7 in.) (closed sketchbook)
sheet: 9.843 × 17.621 cm (3 7/8 × 6 15/16 in.) (single page)
sheet: 9.843 × 35.243 cm (3 7/8 × 13 7/8 in.) (open spread)
sheet: 9.843 × 17.621 cm (3 7/8 × 6 15/16 in.) (single page)
sheet: 9.843 × 35.243 cm (3 7/8 × 13 7/8 in.) (open spread)
Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund
2005.64.58
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. 63.
Lisa 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), 85n.70, 200–201, 216, no. 62, fig. 145–46.
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