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Cheney Block, Hartford

Date1989

MediumDrawing; black ink on paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 15 1/8 x 22 3/8in. (38.4 x 56.8cm)
Sheet (height x width): 18 x 23 3/4in. (45.7 x 60.3cm)

Credit LineGift of the Richard Welling Family

DescriptionDrawing of the Cheney Block, a building in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, in between two other buildings. There are several pedestrians on the sidewalk in front of the Cheney Block.

Object number2012.284.4903

MarkingsVerso, bottom left, stamped in gray ink: "The Estate of / RICHARD / WELLING" [in box]InscribedRecto, bottom left, handwritten in black ink: "11-20-89 / MON - LGT RAIN / AM+PM 40-50°"

There is a box drawn in pencil around the image areaNotesSubject Note: The Cheney Block, a Romanesque revival commercial building on Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut, was designed in 1876 by the Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson.

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