- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1919.28
- People
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Oliver Herford, American (Sheffield England 1863 - 1935)
- Title
- Headpiece for "The Artful Ant," by Oliver Herford
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: The Artful Ant. Headpiece
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1891
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/306073
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black ink on heavy off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 24.2 x 32 cm (9 1/2 x 12 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: u.l., paper, printed: #10588
- inscription: u.r., graphite: 80/8 / for Jan 5th / Headpiece
- inscription: beneath image, graphite: 5 1/2 inches
- inscription: l.r., graphite: 2 COL.
- stamp: l.l., purple ink, stamped: WANTED
- inscription: l.l., blue pencil: 8th
- inscription: in image, black ink, in artist's hand: The Artful Ant. / A Tragic Tale.
- inscription: l.r., blue pencil: x4922
- stamp: l.r., blue ink, stamped: 4922
- inscription: l.r., graphite: 8
- inscription: l.r., graphite: SAT
- inscription: verso, black crayon: St. N. / A 1649
- inscription: verso, blue pencil: MIN. / 18-304
- Provenance
- Evert Jansen Wendell, Bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1919.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Evert J. Wendell
- Accession Year
- 1919
- Object Number
- 1919.28
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Oliver Herford, "The Artful Ant", St. Nicholas, Scribner & Co. (New York, NY, February 1891), vol. XVIII, no. 4, reproduced in b/w p. 304
Oliver Herford, Artful Anticks, The Century Co. (New York, NY, 1894), reproduced in b/w p. 4
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