File:Samuel Finley Breese Morse - "To the Possessor of this Book in the year 1965" - Walters 371536.jpg

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse: "To the Possessor of this Book in the year 1965..."   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse  (1791–1872)  wikidata:Q75698 s:en:Author:Samuel Morse q:en:Samuel F. B. Morse
 
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Description American inventor, physicist, sculptor, painter, university teacher and photographer
"en:Morse code"
Date of birth/death 27 April 1791 Edit this at Wikidata 2 April 1872 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Charlestown (Massachusetts) New York City
Work period 1820 Edit this at Wikidata–1871 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
France; Italy; London; Boston; New York City; Charleston Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q75698
Title
"To the Possessor of this Book in the year 1965..."
Description
English: In this holograph by Morse, the poem, of Morse's own composition, dominates the page. The knight at the head of the poem gestures toward the distant future of 1965, where Morse imagines a reader so remote in time as to have neither form nor gender. His lofty tone and decorous call to virtue in his "strange uncreate" audience evoke sentiments similar to West's dedicatory inscription "to the youths of the United States of America."
Date March 1815
date QS:P571,+1815-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium ink on paper
medium QS:P186,Q127418;P186,Q11472,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 27 cm (10.6 in); width: 17.2 cm (6.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,27U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,17.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.1536
Place of creation New York, New York, USA
Object history
  • Robert Gilmor, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?)
  • Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history Return to Albion: Americans in England, 1760-1940. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington. 1979. Great Illustrations: Drawings and Books from the Walters' Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2010.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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