The Sea Serpent

Elihu Vedderca. 1880

Details

Title: The Sea Serpent
Creator: Stephen Alonso Schoff after Elihu Vedder
Date Created: ca. 1880
Subject Keywords: marine views, serpents
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: “S.A. Schoff”; inscribed in plate, lower left: facsimile “Elihu Vedder Oinx.”; inscribed, lower right: “S.A.Schoff SC”; inscribed, lower center: “The Sea Serpent T.G. Appleton Collection, Boston”; erased pencil signature or inscription, lower right
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of Juwil C. and Virgil W. Topazio (B.A. Wesleyan 1943), 1984
Materials & Techniques: Etching printed in dark brown ink on laid paper
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: 325; published in the "American Art Review" I (1879-80); also published in S.R. Koehler, "American Etchings, " Boston, 1886
Dimensions: 1905
Associated People: Created by Stephen Alonso Schoff (American, 1818-1905), After Elihu Vedder (American, 1836-1923)
Accession Number: 1984.29.156

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