About the Artwork
The Colosseum
ca. 1949
Emil Weddige
1907-2001
American
Unknown
Lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper
Image: 13 3/4 × 9 5/8 inches (34.9 × 24.4 cm) Sheet: 19 7/8 × 12 7/8 inches (50.5 × 32.7 cm)
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Hal H. Smith Memorial Purchase Prize, Annual Exhibition for Michigan Artists, 1949
49.555
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: Emil Weddige.
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: The Colosseum.
Provenance
the artist, Emil Weddige
1949-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Emil Weddige, The Colosseum, ca. 1949, lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Hal H. Smith Memorial Purchase Prize, Annual Exhibition for Michigan Artists, 1949, 49.555.
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