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Study for Lunette in Library of Congress: Anarchy

Artist Elihu Vedder (American ; 1836-1923)
Date1896
DimensionsOverall: 24 3/16 x 44 11/16 in. (61.5 x 113.5 cm)
frame: 29 13/16 x 56 11/16 in. (75.7 x 144 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PAINTING
Credit LineGift of John Hemming Fry
Terms
  • Government
  • allegorical figures
  • fire
  • destruction
Object number38.1.5
Catalogue raisonnéSoria 518
Inscribedl.l. in oil: Copyright 1896 by E.Vedder; l.r. in oil: Elihu Vedder/ Rome 1896; verso l.r.: [NCFA, Smithsonian exhibition label]; verso u.c.: [NCFA, Brooklyn Museum exhibition label]
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceThe artist; to Curtis and Cameron, Publishers, ca. 1898; to Anita Vedder; to Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1913; to John Hemming Fry; to present collection, 1938
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