Base. Seated Figure Resting Against a Lion's Head

© Estate of Clarence Kennedy

The Tomb by Antonio Rossellino for the Cardinal of Portugal

Currently not on view

Base. Seated Figure Resting Against a Lion's Head,

1933

Clarence Kennedy, American, 1892–1972
x1975-78.2

Information

Title
Base. Seated Figure Resting Against a Lion's Head
Dates

1933

Maker
Clarence Kennedy
Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet: 17 × 27 cm (6 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.)
mount: 38.8 × 33.7 cm (15 1/4 × 13 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Transferred from Section of Slides and Photographs, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

Object Number
x1975-78.2
Place Made

North America, United States, Massachusetts, Northampton

Place Depicted

Europe, Italy, Florence, S. Miniato al Monte

Culture
American
Type
gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs, photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process, mounting
Subject
wings, figures (representations), men, chapels, lions, sculpture, bases (object components)

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