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Photo Credit: photo: M. Cook

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Mending His Roof

ca. 1930-1940
20th century
214 x 189 mm (8.4 x 7.4 in.)

Orville Houghton Peets, American, (1884–1968)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Engraving on wove paper

Print impression quality: Very good with plate tone

Edition: Stage proof; see also trial proof 1946.D1.158b, state i/i (?)

Marks: Inscribed in pencil, lower margin: “This must have been under a matcutting operation — Light scratches used to locate drawing. Had this been an etching this way of placing the drawing could not be used as the ground would cover such lines”

Credit Line: Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1946

Accession Number: 1946.D1.158a

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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

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plate Dimensions: 214 x 189 mm (8.4 x 7.4 in.)

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Orville Houghton Peets, American, (1884–1968) . Mending His Roof, ca. 1930-1940. Engraving on wove paper. plate : 214 x 189 mm (8.4 x 7.4 in.). Sheet : 280 x 230 mm (11 x 9.1 in.). DAC accession number 1946.D1.158a. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1946. (photo: M. Cook) .

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