- Title
- Mock-up of bookcase panel with Italian inscription
- Alternate Title
- Arbor Terrace, paper mock-up of panel with Italian inscription
- Creator
- Beatrix Farrand
- Photographer
- Unknown
- Date
- 1935
- Garden Area
- Terrace E
- 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.
- Accession No.
- GP 4-3
- Related Items
- Work Types
- photographs
- black & white photographs
- Measurements
- 4 x 6 inches
- Materials/Techniques
- gelatin silver prints
- 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
- Location
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C.)
- Index Terms
- Arbor Garden or Terrace. See also Wisteria Arbor → lead inscription dedicated to Gelasio B.A. Caetani
- Caetani, Gelasio B.A. → inscription dedicated to
- inscriptions → dedicated to Gelasio B.A. Caetani
- inscriptions → for terrace E
- inscriptions → mock-ups for
- lead inscriptions dedicated to Gelasio B.A. Caetani
- terrace E. See also Arbor Garden or Terrace; Herb Garden; herbaceous border or herbaceous garden; Wisteria Arbor → inscriptions for
- terrace E. See also Arbor Garden or Terrace; Herb Garden; herbaceous border or herbaceous garden; Wisteria Arbor → inscriptions for → dedicated to Gelasio B.A. Caetani
- panels → for terrace E → lead lotus for bookcase arch
- terrace E. See also Arbor Garden or Terrace; Herb Garden; herbaceous border or herbaceous garden; Wisteria Arbor → panels for → lead lotus for bookcase arch
- mock-ups → for terrace E → inscriptions
- mock-ups → for terrace E → panels
- terrace E. See also Arbor Garden or Terrace; Herb Garden; herbaceous border or herbaceous garden; Wisteria Arbor → mock-ups for → inscriptions
- terrace E. See also Arbor Garden or Terrace; Herb Garden; herbaceous border or herbaceous garden; Wisteria Arbor → mock-ups for → panels
- panels → mock-ups for
- lead bookcase → for terrace E → mock-ups
- terrace E. See also Arbor Garden or Terrace; Herb Garden; herbaceous border or herbaceous garden; Wisteria Arbor → panels for → mock-ups
- terrace E. See also Arbor Garden or Terrace; Herb Garden; herbaceous border or herbaceous garden; Wisteria Arbor → inscriptions for → mock-ups
- terrace E. See also Arbor Garden or Terrace; Herb Garden; herbaceous border or herbaceous garden; Wisteria Arbor → lead bookcase for → mock-ups