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A creature of the cage [art original]
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HSP Painted Windows Collection [4FS]
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- Format:
- Image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caricatures and cartoons--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Caricatures and cartoons.
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- Monsters.
- Newspapers.
- Physical Description:
- mythical creature reading a newspaper glass 51 cm x 41 cm paint wire reinforced 4th floor stacks, upper left panel, north-central windows.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Historical Society of Pennsylvania, [s.d.]
- Summary:
- An unknown person, perhaps an employee, devised six images on selected window-panes in the 4th floor stacks. These panes were originally painted to keep out light. The "artist" used some sort of instrument (maybe even just a finger) to make humourous carcicatures and cartoon figures on four of the windows--and abstracts for the remaining two.
- OCLC:
- 828723125
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