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Printer
Gustav Sigismund Peters
(American, born Germany, 1793 - 1847)
Datec. 1840
MediumMachine-colored lithograph on paper
DimensionsComposition: 10 in. × 13 1/2 in. (25.4 × 34.3 cm)
Sheet: 12 in. × 14 1/4 in. (30.5 × 36.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891
Object number1959.157
On view
DescriptionImage depicts subjects following paths to both heavan and hell.
Additional Details
Alternate Titles
Representation of the Different Ways Leading to Everlasting Life or Eternal Damnation
Provenance
1959: Hamilton College, by bequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams.
Signature
Signed in typeset at lower right: Printed and for Sale by G.S. PETERS, HARRISBURG, PA.
Inscribed
Entitled in typeset along upper center: Representation of the different Ways leading to Everlasting Life or Eternal Damnation.; five lines of verse at lower left: signed in typeset below verse at lower left: Printed and for Sale by G.S. PETERS, HARRISBURG, PA.; inscribed in pencil on verso at lower left corner: HC150; in pencil on verso at lower left: 70
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