[Title page decorated with ivy growing out of an urn] [art original]

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Title: [Title page decorated with ivy growing out of an urn] [art original]
Creator: Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created: [between 1884 and 1890]
Publication Place: New York?
Abstract: Drawing of an urn from which grows ivy with clusters of purple berries climbing a stone wall behind; decorates the right margin of the text block on the title page
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Signed by the artist with initials in lower left 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 14 in volume 10 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): Vines
Urns
Subjects: Vines
Urns
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 Ivy Growing Out of an Urn. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.