Illuminated Frontispiece with the Maryland Coat-of-arms for William T. Walters' Drawings Album ""Original Sketches""

1859

19.8 cm 23.6 cm

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This is the specially commissioned illuminated frontispeice for "Original Sketches," one of William T. Walters' albums of drawings. In rustic Gothic niches at the bottom of the page and from left to right can be seen - a medieval scribe, the Maryland coat-of-arms, and a monk p...

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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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