Church at the White Convent, Near Sohag
Edwin Howland Blashfield
American Art
MEDIUM
Graphite on paper
DATES
1887
DIMENSIONS
Sheet: 10 3/8 x 6 1/4 in. (26.4 x 15.9 cm)
SIGNATURE
Signed in graphite lower right: "SKETCH BY / E. H. BLASHFIELD / 1887"
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscribed in graphite at bottom: "NORTH TRANSSEPT. [sic] WHITE CONVENT near Soohag / masonry covered with stucco + with defaced frescoes / Images of carved stone with granite columns. / built into the masonry. The capitals bases + portions / of the shafts emerging. Baptismal font at side of / transsept [sic] & small door at right in collateral[?] leading / to cachette where the Coptic service books are kept. / Pavement tesselated. Semi-dome frescoes have disappeared."
ACCESSION NUMBER
48.217.6
CREDIT LINE
Gift of John H. Field
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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