Study for Grand Entry: Museum Object and Cultural History
Study for Grand Entry: maker: Beal, Gifford. Object Name: drawing. Object Type: Drawings.
The object in the museum catalogue
Drawing in ink on brittle, buff wove paper with perforated edge. Watermark: "Hammermill Bond Made in USA." Study for "Grand Entry." Circus print with three elephants facing left, crowd, and police. Ruled border. Signed in ink, "G BEAL."
Materials, dates and provenance
- maker: Beal, Gifford
- Object Name: drawing
- Object Type: Drawings
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 24 cm x 34 cm; 9 7/16 in x 13 3/8 in
- Subject: Circus
- ID Number: 2012.3036.03
- catalog number: 2012.3036.03
- nonaccession number: 2012.3036
- Credit Line: Estate of Gifford Beal through Katherine Degn, Kraushaar Galleries
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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