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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.47.1
People
James Crichton, American (Baltimore, Maryland 1879 - 1907 New York, New York)
Title
Title Page for Swinburne's "Sapphics;" verso: "Sapphics" Verses
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, album page
Date
1906
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307960

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on cream laid paper
Dimensions
24 x 34.2 cm (9 7/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
sheet affixed to album leaf: 20.6 x 26.7 cm (8 1/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: adhered sheet, in image, black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: SAPPHICS / BY / ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE / ILLUSTRATED BY / JAMES CRICHTON
  • inscription: adhered sheet, u.r., black ink: 1
  • inscription: verso, black ink, handwritten, in artist's hand: All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids, / Shed not dew, nor shook nor unclosed a feather, / Yet with lips shut close and with eyes of iron / Stood and beheld me // Then to me lying awake a vision / Came without sleep over the seas and touched me, / Softly touched mine eyelids and lips; / And I too, full of the vision

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
1943.47.1
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Another page is glued down by all corners to the album leaf.

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