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Devils Way, Algiers

1879

Stephen James Ferris

Artist, American, 1835 - 1915

American Art Review

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching in black on laid paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. S.R. Koehler, Boston, Massachusetts)
Dimensions

plate: 21.43 × 14.92 cm (8 7/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
sheet: 38.74 × 26.83 cm (15 1/4 × 10 9/16 in.)
Accession

2015.19.2448

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sylvester Rosa Koehler, Boston, Massachusetts; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1881; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

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Bibliography

1880

Koehler, S.R., ed. The American Art Review 1, no. 3 (January 1880): p. 104.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: 1879 Feris aquaforti

Wikidata ID

Q77008597

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