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on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Leonard Freed; by artist, lower center in graphite on applied Magnum label: 1958; lower center on applied Magnum label: OLD #; bottom left: UNIQUE / 1958 ROME, ITALY (ST. PETER'S SQUARE); by unknown hand, top right in blue ink perpendicular: W19.1t.2; upper center stamped in blue ink: TIRAGE ARCHIVES / MAGNUM PHOTOS / EPREUVE A RENDRE; center printed in black ink on applied Magnum label perpendicular: MAGNUM / [perpendicular] 72 West 45 Street, New York, New York 10036 / [stamped in purple ink: © Leonard Freed-Magnum] Italy / Snow on St. Peter's square / in Rome. Once in a generation / this unique sight lasts for / several hours and the sun / makes an end to it. / E 26-15 [crossed out]; lower center stamped in black ink: VINTAGE PRINT; lower right: © Leonard Freed-Magnum

Provenance

Brigitte Freed, Garrison, NY; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Freed, Brigitte

Bibliography

2011
Freed, Leonard. The Italians. New York, 2011: p. 163.

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