DrawingsAmerican20th century

Liebestod, from "Tristan and Isolde;" on album leaf: Sketches of Hands; verso of album leaf: Sketches of Hands; Salome

1906

Artists

James CrichtonArtist

Description

Another page is glued down by its upper corners to the album leaf. Tape marks at left corners of the affixed page.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Watercolor, black ink, and metallic paint over graphite on off-white wove paper; graphite and gray wash

Culture

American

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

album leaf: 24.7 x 35 cm (9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.) sheet affixed to album leaf: 22.1 x 32.2 cm (8 11/16 x 12 11/16 in.) border drawn around image on sheet affixed to album leaf: 20.3 x 30.5 cm (8 x 12 in.)

Provenance

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

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