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Image: Amherst College, Mass.

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Amherst College, Mass.

ca. 1820-1830
19th century
140 x 194 mm (5.5 x 7.6 in.)

Alexander Jackson Davis, American, (1803–1892)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching with hand coloring on wove paper
Print impression quality: Good
Marks: Signed in plate below margin, lower left: “A.J. Davis del”; lower right: “J. Archer sc”
Credit Line: Bequest of Fred B. Millet (Wesleyan faculty 1937–1958), 1976
Accession Number: 1976.22.2

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  • American Studies
  • architecture - Art or science of designing and building structures, especially habitable structures, in accordance with principles determined by aesthetic and practical or material considerations. Refers also to the structures created. [November 1994 related term added. October 1990 alternate term added.]
  • Massachusetts - TGN 7007517
  • New England - TGN 7014203 (general region): Refers to several states settled by English colonists, including Connecticut, Maine, Massaschusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The coastline has many harbors. It is on a broad continental shelf, with forested hills inland. It was inhabited by the 9th mill. BCE; the Algonquians were here when the Europeans settled in early 17th century.
  • Northeastern United States - TGN 4011496 (general region): The term typically refers to New England and the northern Atlantic seaboard, including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.
  • schools - Individual buildings or groups of buildings designed or used as places of instruction. [June 1998 lead-in terms added, "educational building", "building, educational", "school building", "building, school", "educational facility", "facility, educ

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  • plate Dimensions: 140 x 194 mm (5.5 x 7.6 in.)

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