About the Artwork
Reverend Doctor W. B. Sprague
19th century
Asher Brown Durand (Artist) American, 1796 - 1886 After Samuel Finley Breese Morse (Artist) American, 1791-1872
Engraving printed in black on chine colle
plate: 9 5/8 x 6 3/4 in. 24.4 x 17.1 cm sheet: 14 1/8 x 11 in. 35.8 x 27.9 cm
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Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund
F72.283.157
Public Domain
Markings
In plate, lower left: Painted by S.F.B. Morse; lower right: Eng. by A.B. Durand; lower center: REV. W.B. SPRAGUE. / WBSprague (autograph signature); in pencil, bottom right edge: ( ) Cole
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Asher Brown Durand; after Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Reverend Doctor W. B. Sprague, 19th century, Engraving printed in black on chine colle. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, F72.283.157.
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