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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1941.85
People
Edwin Austin Abbey, American (Philadelphia, PA 1852 - 1911 London, England)
Title
Illustration for "Barbara Allen:" Kneeling in Sorrow
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1887
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307771

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on off-white wove card
Dimensions
image: 30.4 x 43.1 cm (11 15/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
actual: 33.2 x 44.3 cm (13 1/16 x 17 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.l.: E. A. Abbey / Oct. 1887
  • inscription: verso, black ink: "Barbara Allen" / "Oh Mother, Mother, make my grave / For I shall die tomorrow--" / 1 page
  • inscription: verso, graphite: [HWA?] / Nov. 29 / 87
  • label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper and black ink, handwritten: 1852 - EDWIN A. ABBEY - 1911 / "'O Mother, Mother, make my bed, / "O make it soft and narrow; "'My love has died for me to-day, / "'I'll die for him to-morrow'" / Anonymous poem "Barbara Allen" / Collection: Robert Harrison. / Shiptake Court, / Henley-on-Thames. / Collection: Grenville Lindall Winthrop
  • 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
1941.85
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 38
  • Edwin Austin Abbey and Alfred William Parsons, Old Songs, Harper and Brothers Publishers (New York, NY, 1889), repr. p. 64
  • 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

Verification Level

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