Salome in a Silver Veil, for Oscar Wilde's "Salome"

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.48.7
People: James Crichton, American (Baltimore, Maryland 1879 - 1907 New York, New York)
Title: Salome in a Silver Veil, for Oscar Wilde's "Salome"
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1907
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/194163

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor, black ink and metallic paint over graphite on buff wove paper

Dimensions

25.1 x 35.5 cm (9 7/8 x 14 in.)
Border drawn around image.: 23.5 x 34 cm (9 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: black ink, l.l.: JC [in monogram] 1907
inscription: verso, u.r., black ink: 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: 1943.48.7
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

32Q: 3440 Middle East, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 12/13/2021

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