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Image

Charles Arthur Wells, Jr.

Frederick Douglass,

Description

Maker

  • Charles Arthur Wells, Jr.

Title

Frederick Douglass

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • etching,
  • drypoint,
  • and aquatint on paper

Techniques

  • etching,
  • drypoint,
  • and aquatint on paper

Dimensions

Plate: 48.7 x 37.7 cm (19 3/16 x 14 13/16 inches); Sheet: 63.4 x 49.2 cm (24 15/16 x 19 3/8 inches) (irregular)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription: Recto, inscribed, numbered, and signed in graphite at bottom: "Frederick Douglass 69/77 CAW [signed illegibly]"

Type

  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Steven G. Levine and Freeman T. Freeman

Object Number

2024.4.6

About

Frederick Douglass

Inscription: Recto, inscribed, numbered, and signed in graphite at bottom: "Frederick Douglass 69/77 CAW [signed illegibly]"

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Frederick Douglass with the accession number of 2024.4.6. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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