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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.737
People
Charles Ricketts, British (Geneva, Switzerland 1866 - 1931 London, England)
Title
The Assyrian God, Illustration for "The Sphinx," by Oscar Wilde
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297888

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
28 x 22.4 cm (11 x 8 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Ricketts; to [Scott & Fowles, New York, New York (through Martin Birnbaum)], 1923, sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

NOTE: Provenance information from documents in the curatorial file.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.737
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Blake to Beardsley: A Century of English Illustrators, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 66
  • Nicholas Frankel, The Sphinx by Oscar Wilde, with Decorations by Charles Ricketts. A Facsimile., Rice University Press (Houston, 2010), p. 64
  • Carey Dunne, Flowers of Evil and the Macabre Literary Imagination of Symbolism, Hyperalleric (July 4, 2016), [e-journal], http://hyperallergic.com/305877/flowers-of-evil-and-the-macabre-literary-imagination-of-symbolism/, accessed January 9, 2017

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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