Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Honorary Membership Certificate, 1882

Name: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Honorary Membership Certificate, 1882
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14302-30
Price: 525 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1882
Kind: Maps
Size: 34 × 30 cm (13.4 × 11.8 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition consistent with age. General age toning and scattered foxing throughout. Minor handling wear and light creasing. Original manuscript inscriptions, signatures, and embossed seal remain visible. Please review all images carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Pennsylvania
Reference: BG-14302-30

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Honorary membership certificate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, a steel-engraved form completed by hand and dated 1882. The sheet is printed in black on cream paper, with the recipient's name, the signatures and the date entered in manuscript.

An oval vignette at the top shows the Academy's neoclassical building, with its columned portico, set among tall trees with a few visitors standing before the entrance. Beneath it, flourished script reads "This Certifies that Jean Rousseau is an Honorary Member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Founded at Philadelphia A.D. 1805." The name is written in by hand and underlined in red. Below are the signatures of James L. Claghorn as President and a second officer as Secretary, with the date written in as "May 8" followed by the year.

Founded in 1805, the Academy is among the oldest art institutions in the United States, and such certificates document the people it chose to honor.

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