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Hand-colored engraving of a blue bird with ivy and spider; on a stretcher with canvase backing; rectangular gilt wooden frame; glazed.
engravings (prints)
hand coloring
ink
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Aves (class)
floral patterns
flowers (plants)
spiders (animals)
Picture
Picture, Animal
Ink
Unidentified Paper
Bird
Ivy
Spider
Hand Colored
Picture, Animal
Marked ""Edouard Travie"" in lower right; marked lower left, ""Paris, Victor Lelarue et C. place du Louvre 10,"" embossed mark of company lower left also.
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Victor Delarve & Co. (Publisher)
Travies, Edouard (Engraver)
Paris, France
15.188 x 19.125 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.358
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