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    		• Rosetti, Antonio,
     
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    		• Photosculture de France,
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    The Telegraph, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Rosetti, Antonio, b. 1819, sculptor. (copy after)
    Photosculture de France, founder.
    Title: 
    The Telegraph, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1832.
    Medium: 
    Bronze.
    Dimensions: 
    H. 23 3/4 in. with base; H. 21 13/16 without base.
    Inscription: 
    (On pedestal, top:) 1832 (On pedestal, bottom:) Saml. F. B. Morse (Right side:) Photosculture de France signed Founder's mark appears.
    Subject: 
    Undetermined
    Object Type: 
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 124 Raymond Avenue, Box 703, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0703 Accession Number: X.171
    Remarks: 
    The telegraph receiver and tape are missiong from this cast.
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    Vassar College, Vassar College Art Gallery, 1976.
    "Vassar College Art Gallery: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1967.
    Gardener, Albert TenEyck, "Samuel Morse and the Muse," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, IV (June, 1946), illus. pg. 267, of another cast.
    "Vassar College Art Gallery, Sculpture," Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1982, pg. 30.
    Illustration: 
    "Vassar College Art Gallery, Sculpture," Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1982, pg. 30.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS 76004161
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