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Penitentiary, Philadelphia
C. Burtonca. 1833
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Penitentiary, Philadelphia
- Creator: C. Burton
- Date Created: ca. 1833
- Subject Keywords: American Studies, architecture, prisons
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed beneath margin, lower left: “C. Burton del.”; signed beneath margin, lower right: “J. Archer Sc”
- 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. Olin Library transfer, ca. 1957
- Materials & Techniques: Engraving on wove paper
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: Plate from a bound volume. James Archer did the majority of plates illustrating Hinto’s “History of the United States,” published in Boston, 1834.
- Associated People: Created by C. Burton (American, active 19th century)
- Accession Number: 1983.28.1
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