[Title page decorated with flowers] [art original]

Description

Title: [Title page decorated with flowers] [art original]
Creator: Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created: [between 1884 and 1890]
Publication Place: New York?
Abstract: Drawing of a decorative border of flowers executed on a privately printed title page to an extra-illustrated volume. Arranged in a vertical column, four circular designs formed from twisted branches
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Signed by the artist with initials in lower right portion of image.
Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period.
Date from specially printed title page indicating that the volumes of this copy were "... privately illustrated 1884-1890".
Bound in as page 12 in volume 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Provenance: Borden Sale, American Art Gallery, 17-19 February 1913, lot 812. Rains Galleries, New York, NY, 27 November 1935 (W.D. Breaker sale), lot 688, bought in by Breaker. Purchased from William D. Breaker (through G.A. Baker) by W.S. Lewis, 1939.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 38.4 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Title pages
Watercolors American 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Flowers
Subjects: Flowers
American > 19th century
Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 > Ownership
Breaker, William D. > Ownership

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: David Edward Cronin, Title Page Decorated with Flowers. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.