Subject Keywords: architecture, cathedrals, churches, Etching Revival, food, social protest
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in pencil, lower right margin: “ A Lepere”; signed in plate in image, upper right: “A Lepere 07”; inscribed in pencil, lower right margin: “8687”; inscribed in pencil, verso: “Conf____rer”; inscribed in pencil, verso: “OT”
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center Richard H. Wood (B.A. Wesleyan 1958, former DAC Registrar) Memorial Fund, 2010
Materials & Techniques: Etching on lightweight Japanese laid paper
Bibliography: Joseph Pennell, Etchers and Etchings (New York: Macmillan, 1925), p. 198, illustrated on p. 199; Charles Saunier and G. M. Texier-Bernier, Auguste Lepère, peintre et graveur décorateur des livres (Paris: Maurice Le Garres, 1931), p. 344.
Associated People: Created by Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849-1918)
Accession Number: 2010.6.1
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