Mock-up of bookcase panel with Italian inscription
| Accession number | GP 4-3 |
|---|---|
| Alternative title | Arbor Terrace, paper mock-up of panel with Italian inscription |
| Creator | |
| Photographer | |
| Garden Area |
Terrace E
|
| Date |
1935
|
| Measurements |
4 x 6 inches
|
| Materials/Techniques |
gelatin silver prints
|
| Work types |
photographs
black & white photographs
|
Description
Mock-up based on Beatrix Farrand's drawings for the bookcase panel and inscription created between 1934-1935, GD P-3-25A, GD P-3-25B, and GD P-3-24A.
Panel inscription dedicated to Gelasio B.A. Caetani, the Italian ambassador to the United States from 1922 to 1925, who was a close friend of the Blisses. The text is a quotation of lines 139-141 of Canto XXVIII of Dante's Purgatorio.
Mock-up of panel probably created 1935 based on the date of architectural drawings for the panel, bookcase, and inscription.
Photographer unidentified.
Photograph undated, taken approximately 1935 because it shows the mock-up, not a finished panel.
Typewritten label on verso: Arbor Terrace, paper mock-up of panel w/ Italian inscription.
Title created by cataloger.
Subjects
mock-ups
inscriptions
panels (ornament areas)
niches
paving stone
lotus (motif)
photographs
black-and-white photographs
photographic prints
Collection
Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
Repository
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C.)
| Accession number | GP 4-3 |
|---|---|
| Alternative title | Arbor Terrace, paper mock-up of panel with Italian inscription |
| Creator | |
| Photographer | |
| Garden Area |
Terrace E
|
| Date |
1935
|
| Measurements |
4 x 6 inches
|
| Materials/Techniques |
gelatin silver prints
|
| Work types |
photographs
black & white photographs
|