Illuminated Tailpiece with Thistle and a Skull for William T. Walters' Drawing Album ""Original Sketches""
This drawing was specially commissioned from an as yet unidentified artist as the tailpiece to one of William T. Walters' albums of drawings. It shows a thistle growing up through the eye of a skull. The word "emigravit" appears below on a scroll. This is Latin for "departed,"...
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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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en
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4
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1948_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1948_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1948_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1948 |
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Watercolor on yellow paper
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