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Source Description
A black and white drawing of a Baltimore chapel, this image includes a tree to the right and a tiny woman and child walking up the church steps.Alexandre Vattemare (1796-1864), the French bibliophile and collector, visited Baltimore in 1840 and presumably received this adn the following drawing from Long at that time. In another hand is written: "No. 513 of Catalogue by Robt. Cary Long - not by Latrobe."
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
17267
label
Chapel of St. Mary and St. Joseph, St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore
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Source metadata
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17267
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object
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normalized
title
Chapel of St. Mary and St. Joseph, St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore
description
A black and white drawing of a Baltimore chapel, this image includes a tree to the right and a tiny woman and child walking up the church steps.Alexandre Vattemare (1796-1864), the French bibliophile and collector, visited Baltimore in 1840 and presumably received this adn the following drawing from Long at that time. In another hand is written: "No. 513 of Catalogue by Robt. Cary Long - not by Latrobe."
provenance
Alexandre Vattemare, Philadelphia, probably 1840 [mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inhertiance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1840
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
drawings (visual works)
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
10.6
height
7.3
dimensionsRaw
H: 4 3/16 x W: 2 7/8 in. (10.6 x 7.3 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Description] clockwise around the image in ink: The façade designed and built in by Max..an Godefroy. Arch't/ Alexandre Vattemare Esq. from Robt. Cary Long. The spire designed and built in 1840 by Robt. Cary Long
Archt/ Chapel of St. Mary + St. Joseph/ St. Mary's Seminary/ Baltimore; [Number] in pencil
upper right: N/ 287
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pencil on white paper mounted on heavy white paper with ink inscriptions
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3784
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none
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616
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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073ffaf4278e89b7