Demerara No. 7
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Description:
Hand-colored woodblock print of a cityscape in the colony of Demerara, British Guiana (Guyana). Taylor depicted a woman balancing a basket on her head standing beneath a large tree in the foreground. A second woman with a small child can be seen in the background walking in front of a row of buildings.
Gift of the artist.
- Title: Demerara No. 7
- Creator: Taylor, Anna Heyward, 1879-1956
- Date: 1924
- Signature: Anna Heyward Taylor
- Signature Location: Lower right corner
- Culture: American
- School: Charleston Renaissance Movement
- Dimensions: H-13.75 W-10 inches
- Makers Mark:
- Collection: Works on Paper Collection
- Object Name: Anna Heyward Taylor Artwork
- Other Name: Work on Paper
- Object Id: AZ 248
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