Quarter House, Williamsburg, Virginia

Alice Rumph

About 1934

  • Titles Quarter House, Williamsburg, Virginia (Descriptive)
  • Artist Alice Rumph, American, 1877 - 1957
  • Medium etching
  • Dimensions plate: 4 1/4 × 6 3/8 in. (10.8 × 16.2 cm) frame: 12 × 13 1/2 × 3/4 in. (30.5 × 34.3 × 1.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Patrick Cather, Shoal Creek Alabama, in honor of his brother, Bill Cather of Birmingham, a 1965 graduate of Virginia Military Institute, AFI.128.2016
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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