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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of A Sacred Sheet Sent from Holy Mother Wisdom by Her Angel of Many Signs
Mary Wicks (artist)
American, active 1843
Semantha Fairbanks (artist)
American, active c. 1843
A Sacred Sheet Sent from Holy Mother Wisdom by Her Angel of Many Signs, 1843
pen and blue ink
sight size: 43.2 x 34 cm (17 x 13 3/8 in.) framed: 53.3 x 44.1 cm (21 x 17 3/8 in.)
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
1971.83.26
From the Tour: Works on Paper from the Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Collection
Object 10 of 15

Inscription

upper center verso on attached sheet: A sacred Sheet sent from Holy Mother Wisdom, by her / ... (3 lines of script) / Instrs. Semantha Fairbanks and / Mary Wicks

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