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Dimensions
Image:
10.00" x 7.50"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
15.50" x 13.00"
San Xavier Prayer Candles Framed Print
by Dick Botkin
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San Xavier Prayer Candles framed print by Dick Botkin. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
Prayer Candels inside the San Xavier Del Bac Mission, Tucson, AZ... more
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3 - 4 business days
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Prayer Candels inside the San Xavier Del Bac Mission, Tucson, AZ
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The mission was founded in 1692 by the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino, founder of the Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert chain, who often visited and preached in the area. The original mission church, located about two miles (3 km) away, was vulnerable to Apache attacks who finally destroyed it in about 1770. Charles III of Spain banned all Jesuits from Spanish lands in the Americas in 1767 because of his distrust of the Jesuits. From this time on, San Xavier mission was led by the more pliable and "reliable" Franciscans. The present building was constructed under the direction of Franciscan Fathers Juan Bautista Velderrain and Juan Bautista Llorenz mainly with native labor working from 1783-1797 with a loan of 7,000 pesos and serves the Catholics of the San Xavier District of Tohono O'odham Nation. Unlike the other Spanish missions in Arizona, San Xavier is still actively served by Franciscans...
About Dick Botkin
I currently live in Surprise, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. I was born and raised in the beautiful state of Maine, where my interest in photograhy was discovered. I got my first camera, a Kodak Brownie, when I was six or seven years old, and I've been hooked on the art of photography ever since. A year or so later, I got my first processing and print making kit and I began to realize that I could be as creative, if not more so, in the darkroom than in the field. Over the years, my cameras and darkroom got more complex, giving me more creative tools to work with. About 15 years ago, I traded film, chemicals, tanks, trays, and the smell, for a digital camera and a copy of Photoshop. I never looked back. My goal is to capture and...
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Robert Bales
Congrats for being selected in several groups and this sure is a great presentation!! v/f/t
Dick Botkin replied:
Thank You Bob. Much appreciated
Dick Botkin
Jim, Thanks for the feature, Comfortable Art
Dick Botkin
Nadine and Bob, thank you again for the feature, SW Art and Artist
Nadine And Bob Johnston
Publ. in "USA Artist News." Voted, Favorite
Dick Botkin
Nadine and Bob, Thanks for the Feature, 3-Day USA Artist News