About the Artwork
Shanty Town
1885
Thomas Moran
1837-1926
American
Unknown
Pencil on cream wove paper
Sheet: 6 3/8 × 10 1/4 inches (16.2 × 26 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Merrill Fund
69.471
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Markings
In pencil, center right: T. Moran
In pencil, lower right: Shanty Town 1885; in pen and black ink, lower left: 18.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Thomas Moran, Shanty Town, 1885, pencil on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Merrill Fund, 69.471.
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