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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.47.2
People
James Crichton, American (Baltimore, Maryland 1879 - 1907 New York, New York)
Title
Seated Woman with Lyre for Swinburne's "Sapphics;" verso: "Sapphics" Verses
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, album page
Date
1906
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/194411

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions
24 x 34.2 cm (9 7/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
Border drawn around image on affixed sheet: 14.5 x 13.2 cm (5 11/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
sheet affixed to album leaf: 20.6 x 26.7 cm (8 1/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, center left: JC [in monogram] 1906
  • inscription: u.r., black ink: 2
  • inscription: verso, black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: Saw the white implacable Aphrodite, / Saw the hair unbound and the feet unsandalled / Shine as fire of sunset on western waters; / Saw the reluctant // Feet, the straining plumes of the doves that drew her, / Looking always, looking with necks reverted, / Back to Lesbos, back to the hills whereunder / Shone Mitylene

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
1943.47.2
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Another page is glued down by its upper corners to the album leaf.

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