- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.737
- People
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Charles Ricketts, British (Geneva, Switzerland 1866 - 1931 London, England)
- Title
- The Assyrian God, Illustration for "The Sphinx," by Oscar Wilde
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 19th-20th century
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297888
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Brown ink over graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 28 x 22.4 cm (11 x 8 13/16 in.)
- Provenance
- Charles Ricketts; to [Scott & Fowles, New York, New York (through Martin Birnbaum)], 1923, sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
NOTE: Provenance information from documents in the curatorial file. - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.737
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 66
Nicholas Frankel, The Sphinx by Oscar Wilde, with Decorations by Charles Ricketts. A Facsimile., Rice University Press (Houston, 2010), p. 64
Carey Dunne, Flowers of Evil and the Macabre Literary Imagination of Symbolism, Hyperalleric (July 4, 2016), [e-journal], http://hyperallergic.com/305877/flowers-of-evil-and-the-macabre-literary-imagination-of-symbolism/, accessed January 9, 2017
- Exhibition History
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Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1944 - 06/30/1944
Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/11/1993 - 11/07/1993
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