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Title: Asleep
Creator: Mary Edmonia Lewis
Date Created and/or Issued: 1871
Publication Information: San Jose Public Library
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Edmonia Lewis Sculptures
Rights Information: Copyright San Jose Public Library. Permission to copy or publish any portion of San Jose Public Library California Room collection must be given by the San Jose Public Library California Room. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjpl.org/caroom
Description: A marble sculpture designed and created by Mary Edmonia Lewis. An earlier version of Asleep,called Night (marble, 1870), is held at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Type: image
Format: tiff
Extent: 24 x 19 3/4 x 15 in.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/sjpl_edmon/id/0
Language: English
Subject: Sculptors
Sculpture
Stone carving
Marble
Women
Art
Art objects
Marble sculpture, American
Neoclassicism (Art)
Place: California
San Jose
Source: Edmonia Lewis sculptures

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