She was lying back, watching him, in the great chair
Date1906
Illustration Citation"Tiphaine la Fee," by Warwick Deeping, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, April 1906.
MediumWatercolor on illustration board
Dimensions23 1/4 × 14 1/8 in. (59.1 × 35.9 cm)
frame: 31 3/4 × 24 in. (80.6 × 61 cm)
frame: 31 3/4 × 24 in. (80.6 × 61 cm)
Credit LineSamuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
Object number1935-47
On View
Not on viewA fashion illustrator for The Ladies' Home Journal when she joined Howard Pyle's illustration classes in 1894, Elizabeth Shippen Green accepted an exclusive contract with Harper's Monthly Magazine in 1901. Harper's was at the forefront of high-quality color reproduction. The artist's intense blues and reds, set against the subtle color of the floor and wall, complement the delicate drawing of Tiphaine's curls and the chair's scrollwork.
