1943.46.1: Title Page for "Tristan and Isolde;" on album leaf: Two Landscapes

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.46.1

People

James Crichton, American (Baltimore, Maryland 1879 - 1907 New York, New York)

Title

Title Page for "Tristan and Isolde;" on album leaf: Two Landscapes

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1906

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307864

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper; album leaf: watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

album leaf: 24.7 x 35 cm (9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
sheet affixed to album leaf: 23.4 x 30 cm (9 3/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
border drawn around image on sheet affixed to album leaf: 20.5 x 22.9 cm (8 1/16 x 9 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: affixed sheet, in image, black ink, in artist's hand: Tristan & Isolde. / illustrated / by / James Crichton

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Elizabeth Crichton Batty, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Crichton Batty

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.46.1

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Another page is glued down by its upper corners to the album leaf. The corners have been cut from this page, to decorative effect.

Exhibition History

• Drawings from the Beardsley Period, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/25/1989 - 07/16/1989

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  Object Number
  1943.46
  Artist

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  Title

  Album of Drawings, including illustrations for "Tristan and Isolde"

  Classification
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