Endpapers
Date1905
Artist
Alice Barber Stephens
(American painter, illustrator, and printmaker, 1858–1932)
Illustration CitationUnder the Lilacs, by Louisa May Alcott (Boston: Little, Brown, 1905)
MediumBlack ink, white wash over graphite on paperboard
Dimensionssheet: 17 3/4 × 23 1/8 in. (45.1 × 58.7 cm)
Credit LineGayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund, 2021
Object number2021-23
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis drawing was designed as decoration for a novel's endpapers—the blank pages that connect the pages of a book with its cover. In the early 20th century, decorated endpapers were popular in elegant books.
Alice Barber Stephens
1905
