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Description:
After Samuel Farrar (Massachusetts, 1773-1864)
A Perspective View of the Episcopal Church in Cambridge
Signed and dated in the plate "by Saml Farrar, 1791" l.l., titled u.l. and u.r.
Collotype, 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 in., in a figured maple veneer frame.
Condition: Minor toning.
Note: The church still stands on Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard Square. This image is an early 20th century collotype reproduction.
Provenance: The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art.
Estimate $100-200
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Samuel Farrar, Sybil Kern, CambridgeStephen L. Fletcher
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