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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.46.4
People
James Crichton, American (Baltimore, Maryland 1879 - 1907 New York, New York)
Title
The Charm, from "Tristan and Isolde;" on album leaf: Sketches of Hands
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1906
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/194410

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, metallic paint and black ink over graphite on cream wove paper; album leaf: graphite
Dimensions
album leaf: 24.7 x 35 cm (9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
sheet affixed to album leaf: 20.7 x 30.7 cm (8 1/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
border drawn around image on sheet affixed to album leaf: 19 x 28.9 cm (7 1/2 x 11 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, lower right: JC [in monogram] 1906
  • inscription: affixed sheet, l.l., in image, black ink, in artist's hand: The Charm
  • inscription: verso of album leaf, black ink, in artist's hand: Tristram and Isolt. / He that while she spake, / Mindful of what he brought to adorn her with, / The jewels, had let one finger lightly touch / The warm white apple of her throat, replied, / "Press this a little closer, sweet, until-- / Come, I am hungered and half-angered-- meat, / Wine, wine-- and I will love thee to the death, / And out beyond into the dream to come." / Alfred Tennyson

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
1943.46.4
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
A drawing is glued down by its corners to the album leaf.

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