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Colonial Memories
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The woodcut was printed on cotton cloth, and then the fabric was nailed with closely set nails to a backing from which it was then ripped, leaving ragged punctures throughout the background to the figure. Another impression of the same print was left nailed; see the departmental files for a photograph of this work.
Department of Prints
[Tepper Takayama Fine Arts Boston Massachusetts] sold; to Harvard University Art Museums January 20 1998.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Margaret Fisher Fund
Title: Colonial Memories
Description:
The woodcut was printed on cotton cloth, and then the fabric was nailed with closely set nails to a backing from which it was then ripped, leaving ragged punctures throughout the background to the figure.
Another impression of the same print was left nailed; see the departmental files for a photograph of this work.
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