Cover Study for Evangeline
Datec. 1897
Artist
Violet Oakley
(American painter and illustrator, 1874–1961)
Illustration CitationEvangeline, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1897
MediumWatercolor, gouache, gold paint, and graphite on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 7 3/16 × 4 3/4 in. (18.3 × 12.1 cm)
sheet: 9 × 6 1/4 in. (22.9 × 15.9 cm)
sheet: 9 × 6 1/4 in. (22.9 × 15.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Violet Oakley Foundation, 1982
Object number1982-86
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis design, which appears to be a study for a cover or frontispiece, was not used in the final publication illustrated by Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith.
