Page Design with Purple Flowers

Page Design with Purple Flowers
Page Design with Purple Flowers

Page Design with Purple Flowers

Datec. 1887
Artist (American painter and illustrator, 1846–1916)
Illustration CitationPossibly related to "Among the Wildflowers," by John Burroughs, in The Century, July 1887.
MediumGraphite and watercolor on paper
Dimensionssheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 2023
Object number2023-14
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis drawing may be a page design combining text--the horizontal lines--and framing floral elements. "Among the Wild-Flowers," illustrated by Gilder and Harry Fenn, appeared in The Century Magazine with a similar layout.
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