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Maker(s):Chirot, Holly Coulter
Culture:American (1942 - 1984)
Title:12 Whelly-Toe Isle from Islands
Date Made:1975
Type:Print; Portfolio
Materials:etching and letterpress on medium thick, moderately textured, cream-colored paper
Place Made:France; Paris
Measurements:sheet (folded): 11 1/4 in x 11 1/2 in; 28.6 cm x 29.2 cm
Accession Number:  SC 2013.43.13
Credit Line:Gift of the Coulter Family
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art

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Description:
tri-folded sheet with small etching of lower case r shape over a desert with figure riding a camel, tents, building walls, a pyramid and a curving tower, text, larger image of r-shaped island with large walls, pyramids at smaller end, desert with tents with camels, rhinos and other animals peeling up to reveal corner of another desert with tents and animals also peeling up to reveal a bottom layer of just desert, concentric tower spewing smoke at bottom center of water, sea serpent-shaped boats up edge of island in active wavy water

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Chirot, Holley Coulter
American (1942 - 1984)
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