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Electric Light Arrives, 1900. Relief engraving or photo relief etching on green wove paper.
Relief engraving or photo relief etching on green wove paper · 20.7 × 30 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Electric Light Arrives
- Artist
- Manuel Manilla Mexican, 1830-c. 1900
- Date
- 1900
- Medium
- Relief engraving or photo relief etching on green wove paper
- Dimensions
- 20.7 × 30 cm (8 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
- Credit line
- William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment, Joseph Brooks Fair and John H. Wrenn Memorial collections
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.