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Invitation to Detroit School of Arts Reception

John Ward Dunsmore American, 1854-1945
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Invitation to Detroit School of Arts Reception

1891

John Ward Dunsmore

1854-1945

American

Unknown

Etching printed in black ink on japanese paper

Plate: 3 × 4 inches (7.6 × 10.2 cm) Sheet: 4 1/4 × 5 inches (10.8 × 12.7 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of the Deer Lodge Centre, Winnipeg

1996.190

Copyright Not Evaluated

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Signed, lower left: [artist's monogram]

Inscribed, in plate: The FACVLTY | and Stvdents of | the Detroit School of Arts | have the honor to invite | Yovrself and friends| to an | Informal | Reception | to be given at the |stvdios | Washington avenue | [illegible] Grand River | on Satvrday Evening | Nov 14 1891 | 8 to 1130

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Deer Lodge Centre (Winnipeg, Canada);
1996-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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John Ward Dunsmore, Invitation to Detroit School of Arts Reception, 1891, etching printed in black ink on japanese paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Deer Lodge Centre, Winnipeg, 1996.190.

Invitation to Detroit School of Arts Reception
Invitation to Detroit School of Arts Reception