1919.13: Title Page for "The Dragon's Story" by Tudor Jenks

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1919.13

People

Oliver Herford, American (Sheffield England 1863 - 1935)

Title

Title Page for "The Dragon's Story" by Tudor Jenks

Other Titles

Alternate Title: The Dragon's Story. Title

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1889

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305975

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on heavy off-white wove paper

Dimensions

31.8 x 38.8 cm (12 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: u.l., paper, stamped: 10580
• inscription: u.l., black ink: B2372
• inscription: upper center, graphite: X
• stamp: upper center, blue ink: 3668
• blind stamp: REYNOLD'S / BRISTOLBOARD [with design of crown]
• inscription: in image, black ink, in artist's hand: The / Dragon's / Story / by Tudor Jenks / (Guaranteed strictly untrue)
• inscription: lower center, graphite: 2 cols.
• stamp: lower center, purple ink and graphite, stamped and handwritten: [ink:] WANTED / [graphite:] May 3
• inscription: l.r., graphite: 15
• inscription: verso, black crayon: St. N. / A362
• inscription: verso, blue pencil: 10 x 6 / 16-816

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Evert Jansen Wendell, Bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1919.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Evert J. Wendell

Accession Year

1919

Object Number

1919.13

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Tudor Jenks, "The Dragon's Story", St. Nicholas, Scribner & Co. (New York, NY, September 1889), vol. XVI, no. 11, reproduced in b/w p. 816

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