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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1999.2.4
People
Angela S. Lorenz, American (born 1965 -)
Title
Earth and treetrunk foundation for wooden tower beneath San Giovanni in Monte
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Artificial Hills
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
album page, photograph
Date
1998
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/191522

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print, toned, mounted to board with letterpress
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 9.1 x 14 cm (3 9/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
album: 14 x 18.5 x 1.7 cm (5 1/2 x 7 5/16 x 11/16 in.)
mount: 14 x 18.5 cm (5 1/2 x 7 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: signed, dated and numbered
  • inscription: recto of the mount, lower left, black ink, letterpress: 4. Earth and treetrunk foundation for wooden
    tower (?) 4th - 6th c.
    beneath San Giovanni in Monte - 13th c.
  • inscription: recto of the mount, lower right, black ink, letterpress: In Barbaric times renowned for dearth,
    Hills were created with trunks and earth.
    Wooden towers atop no longer remain,
    Yet later constructions grace the terrain.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Angela S. Lorenz, Manchester, Massachusetts, sold to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Davis Pratt Fund
Copyright
© Angela S. Lorenz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
P1999.2.4
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
in artist book with twelve panels (with text) bound with bookbinding cloth strips in a panorama format; corners of eachpanel are rounded; presented in red cardstock box with gold lettering, with die-cut to show the first panel (case signed by artist in graphite)

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