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Chapel of St. Mary and St. Joseph, St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore
A black and white drawing of a Baltimore chapel, this image includes a tree to the right and a tiny woman and child walking up the church steps.
Alexandre Vattemare (1796-1864), the French bibliophile and collector, visited Baltimore in 1840 and presumably received this adn the following drawing from Long at that time. In another hand is written: "No. 513 of Catalogue by Robt. Cary Long - not by Latrobe."
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Alexandre Vattemare, Philadelphia, probably 1840 [mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inhertiance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1953 | Architecture of Baltimore. The Peale, Baltimore. |
Measurements
H: 4 3/16 x W: 2 7/8 in. (10.6 x 7.3 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.1943