Christmas Card

Artists

Description

Creased vertically down the center where it was folded like a greeting card.

Dimensions

27.8 x 21.4 cm (10 15/16 x 8 7/16 in.) image on front: 14 x 10.8 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Fredric Wertham, bequest; to Florence Hesketh Wertham, 1981, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1987. NOTE: It is unclear how and when the drawings came into Mr. Wertham's possession; per the Wertham Collection catalogue (Harvard University, 1990), "It is not known precisely when the drawings came into Dr. Wertham's possession; however, it is likely that they were acquired when he was called in by the Phipps Clinic [at Johns Hopkins, where Fitzgerald was a patient] as a special consultant on her case.