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1932

  • Work on this object began.

1942

  • Work on this object ended.

1963

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Print, Bracing Subway Excavation

This is a Print. It is dated ca. 1937 and we acquired it in 1963. Its medium is etching in black ink on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Jules R. Breuchaud.

Its dimensions are

Platemark: 35.5 × 27.9 cm (14 × 11 in.)

It is signed

Signed in graphite, lower right: Otto Ostrowsky

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: Trial proof

Cite this object as

Print, Bracing Subway Excavation; USA; etching in black ink on paper; Platemark: 35.5 × 27.9 cm (14 × 11 in.); 1963-58-24

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