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What Made You Take Up Art as a Profession?

A work made of pen and black ink with blue pencil on ivory wove paper.
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  • A work made of pen and black ink with blue pencil on ivory wove paper.

Date:

1894

Artist:

Philipp William May
English, 1864-1903

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Philip William May

Title

What Made You Take Up Art as a Profession?

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

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1894

Medium

Pen and black ink with blue pencil on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

25.2 × 18.1 cm (9 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Charles Deering Collection

Reference Number

1927.4337

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