Description
Long had originally designed an Egyptian-style entranceway, but then abandoned it for the present Gothic revival style entrance.
Provenance
Alexandre Vattemare, Philadelphia, probably 1840 [mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Inscription] below: Entrance Gateway, Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. To Alexandre Vattemare, Esq. from Robt. Cary Long, Arch't.
Credit
Acquired by William T. Walters