The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, from "Harper's Weekly"
An interior view of a large gallery at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, with a balcony at left. Plaster reproductions of sculptures include a pulpit in the church of Sant’Andrea, Pistoia, by Giovanni Pisano and the caryatid porch of the Erectheion on the Acropolis at Athens, and panels from the Parthenon frieze. Three paintings hang above the gallery along the back wall.
Artwork Details
- Title: The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, from "Harper's Weekly"
- Artist: After Albert Weck Wenzell (American, Detroit, Michigan 1864–1917 Englewood, New Jersey)
- Publisher: Harper's Weekly (American, 1857–1916)
- Date: May 26, 1891
- Medium: Photomechanical reproduction
- Dimensions: Image: 13 3/4 × 20 1/4 in. (35 × 51.5 cm)
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 22 7/16 in. (40.5 × 57 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Miss Helen L. Card, 1944
- Object Number: 44.36.2
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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