1941.88: Illustration for "Barbara Allen:" Receiving a Messenger

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1941.88

People

Edwin Austin Abbey, American (Philadelphia, PA 1852 - 1911 London, England)

Title

Illustration for "Barbara Allen:" Receiving a Messenger

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1887

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307772

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink over graphite on off-white wove card

Dimensions

actual: 45.4 x 35.5 cm (17 7/8 x 14 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, l.r.: E. A. Abbey / 1887
• inscription: verso, black ink: "Barbara Allen" / 1 page
• label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper and black ink, handwritten: 1852 - EDWIN A. ABBEY - 1911 / "He sent his name in to her then, / "To the town where she was dwellin', / 'O haste and come to my master dear, / If you rname be Barbara Allen.'" / Anonymous poem / "Barbara Allen" / Collection: Robert Harrison. / Shiptake Court, / Henley-on-Thames. / Collection: Grenville Lindall Winthrop
• inscription: old backing?, graphite: [encircled:] 31
• exhibition label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper and black ink, printed and handwritten: No. 200 - 203 [the four illustrations not differentiated in catalogue]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Robert Harrison, Henley-on-Thames, England, 1912; Gordon Dunthorne, Washington, DC; sold to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1926; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1941.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1941

Object Number

1941.88

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Barbara Allen's Cruelty; or, the Young Man's Tragedy", Harper's New Monthly Magazine (June 1888), vol. LXXVII, ill. p. 35
• Edwin Austin Abbey and Alfred William Parsons, Old Songs, Harper and Brothers Publishers (New York, NY, 1889), repr. p. 60
• Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, and by deceased masters of the British school, including a collection of pictures and drawings by E. A. Abbey, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1912), no. 200-203

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School, including a Collection of Pictures and Drawings by Edwin Austin Abbey R. A., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/01/1912 - 12/31/1912

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