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Image Not Available for EXTERIOR OF CARTHAGE JAIL
EXTERIOR OF CARTHAGE JAIL
Image Not Available for EXTERIOR OF CARTHAGE JAIL

EXTERIOR OF CARTHAGE JAIL

Datec.1878
CountryUtah, USA
MediumTempera on muslin
Dimensions198.1 x 290.8 cm (78 x 114 1/2") (Image)
Frame: 222.3 x 345.4 cm (87 1/2 x 136")
Credit LineBrigham Young University Museum of Art, gift of the grandchildren of C.C.A. Christensen.
Object number830026602
DescriptionThe image's foreground is filled with a large group of male figures dressed in American frontier period clothing; most of the figures carry long rifles. In the central middle ground a large brick structure with a wooden ell on the right side has a small clearing in front of it in which one male figure lays on the ground and a second stands at his head as if ready to collapse. Rays of bright light stream down upon the two figures from the upper right corner.
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