Europe uniting Asia and America
- Bonomi MSS 44.15
- Item
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Europe uniting Asia and America:
- pencil sketch on paper
- mounted
- 26.6 x 32.0 cm
- [on sketch] 'AMERICA' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'EVROPA' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'ASIA' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'J Bonomi del.' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'Europe uniting Asia and America / She extends to them Commerce and Peace / The wheels indicate the means, viz, the rail road' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'America youthful / attired in the costume / of the Mexicans stands / on the right of Europe / the position that / continent has with / respect to
Europe/othersthe other two' (pencil note) - [on sketch] 'Asia more matronly / attired in more ample / garments stands on / the left of Europe' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'Europe younger than / Asia wears the mural / crown surmounted by / a dome and a cross as / this division of the earth / entirely Xtian' (pencil note)
- [on mount] '10' (ink note)