Monastery of San Simeon, West Bank at Assuan
October 16, 1887
Edwin Howland Blashfield
American, 1848-1936
American Art
- Maker/Artist
- Blashfield, Edwin Howland
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Graphite on paper mounted to paperboard
- Medium
- graphite, paper, mounted, paperboard
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 9 5/16 x 14 1/16 in. (23.7 x 35.7 cm) Mat (drawing mounted on): 12 x 18 1/2 in. (30.5 x 47 cm)
- Inscribed
- In graphite, at bottom of sheet: "An [n overwritten by C] Chapel in the lower story of the Derr back of the Cataract / Oct 16. 1887. / walls white colored frieze of saints on three sides"; and various artist's color notations on architectural elements, including "red", "yellow", "white / purple" (on saint's robe), "ceiling / of [illegible]"
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 48.217.9
- Credit Line
- Gift of John H. Field
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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