DrawingsAmerican19th century

Luna Moth on a Bleeding Heart

19th century

Artists

Miss HarrisArtist

Description

The moth (Actias luna) sits on a Dicentra spectabilis or Bleeding Heart plant.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

25.4 x 24 cm (10 x 9 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Possibly Thaddeus William Harris; John Witt Randall, Boston, MA; bequest to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892; gift to Harvard University, 1892.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Study of Hands Clasped Around a Knee

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Detail of a Sculptural Braid Pattern

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Study of Draped Knees for the Law, "Israel and the Law," Boston Public Library

John Singer Sargent, 1895 - 1916

Charcoal on heavy beige wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Mountain Landscape, Naples

Robert David Gauley, 1893

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on ivory wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Male Head in Profile

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Five Male Heads, for "Belshazzar's Feast"

Washington Allston, 1817

Graphite on ivory wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Catawissa, Pennsylvania; verso: Faint Landscape

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1852

Graphite on slightly darkened off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Male Portrait Head

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Graphite and black crayon on cream wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Scales for "Judgment" Lunette; verso: Sketch for "Hell," Boston Public Library

John Singer Sargent, 1895-1916

Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: charcoal

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Landscape

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Watercolor on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, after Filippino Lippi

Joseph Lindon Smith, 1886

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Man with Pack, Dresden

Louis Michel Eilshemius, 1880

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican