Detail View: The AMICA Library: Our search for the temple of Kurium

AMICA ID: 
LOC_.cai96002789/PP
AMICA Library Year: 
1999
Object Type: 
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name: 
Rogers, W. A.
Creator Role: 
artist
Creator Dates/Places: 
1854-1931
Creator Name-CRT: 
W. A Rogers
Title: 
Our search for the temple of Kurium
Title Type: 
Title on verso
View: 
Full View
Creation Date: 
1886?
Creation Start Date: 
1886
Creation End Date: 
1886
Materials and Techniques: 
pen and ink
Materials and Techniques: 
pen and ink
Materials and Techniques: 
pen and ink
Processes and Techniques: 
Editorial cartoons
Processes and Techniques: 
Comics
Processes and Techniques: 
Drawings
Classification Term: 
Drawing
Subject Terms: 
Fraud.
Subject Terms: 
Antiquities.
Dimensions: 
unmeasured
AMICA Contributor: 
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Owner Location: 
Washington, DC, USA
ID Number: 
DLC/PP-1932:0042
Credit Line: 
Courtesy of The Library of Congress
Parts and Pieces: 
1
Rights: 
Context: 
First panel: Man, "Commissioner of Life," arrives at wharf on island of Cyprus, looks for ancient artifacts and finds only a "Toy Store." Second panel: Man continues search and finds abandoned lot with sign "Property for Sale." Third panel: Man returns to New York City and finds fradulent ancient artifacts in the basement of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Related Document Description: 
Published in: Life, 7:134-135 (March 4, 1886).
Related Work Description: 
Cabinet of American Illustration (Library of Congress)
Link to Work: 
(DLC)95849474
Related Image Identifier Link: 
LOC_.2a14341u.tif