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Auguste Raffet

The Typhus Fever in Mayence (Le Typhus à Mayence)

Description

Maker

Auguste Raffet (French, 1804-1860)

Title

The Typhus Fever in Mayence (Le Typhus à Mayence)

Year

ca. 1827

Medium

  • pencil,
  • pen and ink

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • pencil,
  • pen and ink

Materials

pencil, pen and ink

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 x 11.3 cm (3 9/16 x 4 7/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Numbered in pen and ink, LL: 204

Verso: inscribed in pen and ink in a nineteenth-century hand: "Chapitre 41"; and in graphite: "typhus a Mayence"

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

66.084

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

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This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Auguste Raffet (French, 1804-1860)
The Typhus Fever in Mayence (Le Typhus à Mayence), ca. 1827
pencil; pen and ink
Sheet: 9 x 11.3 cm (3 9/16 x 4 7/16 inches)
Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 66.084

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