1943.47.2: Seated Woman with Lyre for Swinburne's "Sapphics;" verso: "Sapphics" Verses
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.47.2
- People
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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
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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
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- 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
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Another page is glued down by its upper corners to the album leaf.
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