DrawingsAmerican19th century

Text with Lily, 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 × 28.4 cm (15 5/16 × 11 3/16 in.)

Provenance

John Ruskin; Sven Bruntjen Fine Arts, Woodside CA; sold to private collector, 1981; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1984.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Soglio, Switzerland

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Graphite on blue-flecked cream laid paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Amalfi

Robert David Gauley, 1893

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper, mounted overall to darkened off-white cardboard.

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Half-Length Male Nude with Elbow Bent

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Two Studies for Orpheus, for "Orpheus and Eurydice"

John Singer Sargent, 1916 - 1925

Charcoal and graphite on off-white laid paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Ye Publycke-Garden Pond, from "Manners and Customs of Ye Bostonians"

Francis Gilbert Attwood, 19th century

Brown ink over graphite on heavy off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

What Will Ye That I Do to You?

Augustus Vincent Tack, 19th-20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper mounted to board

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Nude Male, for "Sadak...", and Seated Figure; verso: Figure and Animal Sketches

William Rimmer, 1867-1868

Blue ink on paper on lined wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

The Child Magnetized by the Nurse, for "The Turn of the Screw"

John La Farge, 1898

Watercolor, black ink and white gouache on off-white card

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Blank page

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Study of Foliage

John Singer Sargent, 1871

Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Susquehanna River at Catawissa, Pennsylvania

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1852

Graphite on slightly darkened off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Siena

Charles Herbert Woodbury, Sept 1890

Graphite on cream wove paper, mounted to card

19th centuryAmerican