"The sad historian of the pensive plain," illustration for Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village (London and New York: 1902), p. 43 Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey (American, 1852–1911, M.A. (Hon.) 1897)

ca. 1890s

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Pen and ink

Dimensions

sight: 19 3/8 × 16 3/8 in. (49.2 × 41.6 cm)

Credit Line

Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection

Accession Number

1937.1211

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Drawings

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Provenance
Edwin Austin Abbey Estate, 1937; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Edition

Publ: Harper's, March 1902, p. 587; Deserted Village, p. 35

Inscriptions

Signed lr: E.A. Abbey

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