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Photo Credit: photo: M. Cook

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Mending His Roof

ca. 1930-1940
20th century
207 x 187 mm (8.1 x 7.4 in.)

Orville Houghton Peets, American, (1884–1968)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Engraving on laid paper

State: Possibly only state

Print impression quality: Excellent (with retroussage?)

Edition: 19/60

Marks: Signed in pencil, lower right: “Orville H. Peets”; inscribed in pencil, lower left: “Mending His Roof (engraving) / 19/60”

Provenance / Collectors' Marks: George W. Davison (initialed in pencil in Davison’s hand, lower right: “G.W.D.”).

Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1939

Accession Number: 1939.D1.26

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genre*, labor*, print states

genre - Use for pictorial representations, which may be in various media, that represent scenes or events from everyday life; usually used with another term such as "paintings" or "prints." [April 1991 descriptor moved.]
labor - Usage in the sense of physical work
print states

Dimensions

plate Dimensions: 207 x 187 mm (8.1 x 7.4 in.)

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Credit Caption

Orville Houghton Peets, American, (1884–1968) . Mending His Roof, ca. 1930-1940. Engraving on laid paper. Possibly only state. plate : 207 x 187 mm (8.1 x 7.4 in.). Sheet : 284 x 248 mm (11.2 x 9.8 in.). DAC accession number 1939.D1.26. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1939. (photo: M. Cook) .

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