Church at the White Convent, Near Sohag
1887
Edwin Howland Blashfield
American, 1848-1936
American Art
- Maker/Artist
- Blashfield, Edwin Howland
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 10 3/8 x 6 1/4 in. (26.4 x 15.9 cm)
- Inscribed
- Inscribed in graphite at bottom: "NORTH TRANSSEPT. [sic] WHITE CONVENT near Soohag / masonry covered with stucco + with defaced frescoes / Images of carved stone with granite columns. / built into the masonry. The capitals bases + portions / of the shafts emerging. Baptismal font at side of / transsept [sic] & small door at right in collateral[?] leading / to cachette where the Coptic service books are kept. / Pavement tesselated. Semi-dome frescoes have disappeared."
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