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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.46
People
James Crichton, American (Baltimore, Maryland 1879 - 1907 New York, New York)
Title
Album of Drawings, including illustrations for "Tristan and Isolde"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album
Date
1906
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/193356

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Maroon fabric-bound album with leather spine
Dimensions
25.5 x 35.6 x 1.2 cm (10 1/16 x 14 x 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: front pastedown, graphite, erased, in artist's hand: James Crichton / Long Branch, N. [W.?] / Sept 1905 [- 7?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Elizabeth Crichton Batty, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Crichton Batty
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.46
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Album with maroon fabric covered covers and leather spine. Pencil sleeve. Pages of cream wove paper. Drawings are pasted into the first six pages of the album, on top of the drawings that were executed on the album pages.
A number of pages are missing from the album: one page before the title page, two pages following the second page, one following p. 11, possibly one following p. 12, and two following p. 13.

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