Illuminated Tailpiece with a Palette and Brushes for William T. Walters' Drawings Album ""Original Sketches""

1859

24.1 cm 18.6 cm

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This tailpiece was specially commissioned for one of William T. Walters' albums of drawings. It shows a palette and brushes covered by a spider's web, the spider is suspended from a brush below. Under this is the word "finis," Latin for "end." The seemingly abandoned pallette...

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Commissioned by William T. Walters, Baltimore, by 1859; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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