1919.44: Title Page for "A Dark Career," by Oliver Herford

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1919.44

People

Oliver Herford, American (Sheffield England 1863 - 1935)

Title

Title Page for "A Dark Career," by Oliver Herford

Other Titles

Alternate Title: A Dark Career. Title

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1893

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306059

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink over graphite, partially erased, on heavy off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 31 x 38.9 cm (12 3/16 x 15 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, l.r.: O. Herford
• label: u.l., paper, stamped: 10598
• stamp: l.r., blue ink, stamped: 7071
• inscription: beneath image, graphite: 5 in--
• inscription: verso, black crayon: St. N. / A 3605
• inscription: verso, blue pencil: minimum
• inscription: verso, l.l., blue pencil: 20-774
• blind stamp: [REYN]OLD'S / [BRISTO]LBOARD [with design of a crown]

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

1919.44

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Oliver Herford, "A Dark Career", St. Nicholas, Scribner & Co. (New York, NY, August 1893), vol. XX, p. 774, reproduced in b/w p. 774
• Oliver Herford, Artful Anticks, The Century Co. (New York, NY, 1894), reproduced in b/w p. 36

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