Definition:

A free-text note about the Work, Collection, or Image, including comments, description, or interpretation, that gives additional information not recorded in other categories. For element-specific notes, use the optional notes subelement.

Wikicatalog Use:

Repeat additional descriptions under existing entries.  Include the source if known.

Data Values: none recommended

VRA Core 4: <description>

CCO: Part TWO: Chapter 8: Description

CDWA: Descriptive Note

Dublin Core: Description

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Examples:

"This drawing was originally part of a sketchbook, now lost, documenting the artist's 2nd trip to Egypt in 1867. Some of the figure's costume elements appear in a painted work of a later date"  Source: Hardin, Jennifer, "The Lure of Egypt," St. Petersburg: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995