DrawingsAmerican19th century

Text with Globe Flowers for the "Ballad of Santa Zita" from "Tuscan Songs"

1868-1882

Artists

Francesca AlexanderArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink over graphite erasures on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

38.9 × 28.1 cm (15 5/16 × 11 1/16 in.)

Provenance

John Ruskin. [Sven Bruntjen Fine Arts, Woodside, CA], sold; to Joseph and Deborah Goldyne, 1981, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1981

Related Artworks

Drawings

Temple of Jupiter Serafius, Pozzuoli, Italy

John Singer Sargent, May 17 1869

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Head of a Soothsayer, for "Belshazzar's Feast"

Washington Allston, 1839 - 1843

Black ink on heavy blue wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Sun, Moon, and Poppy Branch, from Lunette of Southern Door, Baptistry, Parma

Joseph Lindon Smith, 19th-20th century

Watercolor and gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Rock in a Landscape; verso: blank page

Benjamin Champney, Sept 1859

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Ghardaia, Algeria

Dodge Macknight, 1887

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Landscape with Buildings

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Graphite on cream wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Natural Arch, Capri

John Singer Sargent, May 21 1869

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Standing Figures with Packs

John Singer Sargent, 1872

Graphite and brown wash on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Head of Emily Sargent; verso: Miss Jane Evans

John Singer Sargent, 1892-1898

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Renaissance Palazzo, Lucca, Italy

John Singer Sargent, 1910

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Cottage, Cape May, New Jersey; verso: Three Small Landscapes

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1854

Graphite on cream wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Figure Studies for "The Bathers"

William Morris Hunt, c. 1877

Charcoal with touches of black crayon on off-white laid paper

19th centuryAmerican