The Closed Door
Date1894
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration CitationThe Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1894).
MediumOil on illustration board
Dimensions12 1/4 x 8 1/16 in. (31.1 x 20.5 cm)
frame: 15 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. (40 × 29.2 cm)
frame: 15 3/4 × 11 1/2 in. (40 × 29.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Willard S. Morse, 1923
Object number1923-127
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextPyle's image of an angel illustrated Holmes' essay exploring religious concerns of the period.
Ida Marion Dougherty (Aylward)
not dated
