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Buildings / Wanda Miller Matthews – Vintage Photo Print

Buildings / Wanda Miller Matthews, 1953 — historic print
Buildings / Wanda Miller Matthews, 1953. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Buildings / Wanda Miller Matthews, a historic print rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Buildings / Wanda Miller Matthews

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*Buildings* is a color etching from 1953, one of only 20 impressions in its edition; this copy is numbered 14 and signed and dated in pencil below the plate. Architecture was a natural subject for printmakers of the period, and the etching medium suited the crisp lines and tonal shifts of city structures. The Pennell Fund, named for the etcher and illustrator Joseph Pennell, whose celebrated architectural drawings recorded American cities, helped the Library of Congress build its holdings of American prints. Its acquisition reflects that tradition of printmaking devoted to the built environment.

Created / published1953
Medium1 print : etching, col.
Notes14/20. Signed and dated in pencil below plate. Pennell Fund. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 903 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120659

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