Dr. Walter Clarke

mounted, with an inscription and date on a paper label in ink, framed, the initials 'E. T. G.' in white ink on the lower edge and a letterpress label, 'Presented to the Hubbard Free Library, Hallowell, Maine, by E. T. Getchell, Washington, D. C.' dated in ink and with the Buhl Collection label on the reverse, 1901

Keith De Lellis, New York, 1996

Hudson, New York, Museum of the Imagination, The Hand in Art, October 2003

This early print, with cream and eggplant tones and mounted to a dark brown board, is in its original frame and has not been removed since originally framed and presented to the Hubbard Free Library in 1902. It appears to be in generally very good condition. The edges are rubbed, and there is a vertical crease about one inch from the right edge that occurred prior to mounting.
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The inscription reads: 'The right hand of E. T. Getchell, as shown by the Roentgen ray stethoscopic process - made by Dr. Walter J. Clarke, England, Oct. 1901.'