Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 3 pages
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Source Description
This is the illuminated frontispiece for one of William T. Walters' drawings albums, titled "Original Sketches." It is clearly inspired by medieval manuscript illuminations. It shows an artist in a white suit painting a river scene in the initial letter "S" and the ground is an all-over formalized vine pattern.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
26721
label
Illuminated Frontispiece with an Artist Painting a River Scene for William T. Walters' Drawings Album ""Original Sketches""
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
3
Source metadata
id
26721
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Illuminated Frontispiece with an Artist Painting a River Scene for William T. Walters' Drawings Album ""Original Sketches""
description
This is the illuminated frontispiece for one of William T. Walters' drawings albums, titled "Original Sketches." It is clearly inspired by medieval manuscript illuminations. It shows an artist in a white suit painting a river scene in the initial letter "S" and the ground is an all-over formalized vine pattern.
provenance
Commissioned by William T. Walters, Baltimore, by 1859; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
1859
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
watercolors (paintings)
frontispiece
imageCount
3
pageCount
3
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
12.8
height
18.2
dimensionsRaw
H: 5 1/16 × W: 7 3/16 in. (12.8 × 18.2 cm); Paper H: 7 5/16 × w: 9 7/16 in. (18.5 × 24 cm); Mat H: 14 1/4 × W: 19 1/4 in. (36.2 × 48.9 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Initialed] on shield: C M B [Dated] bottom right: Ao Di MDCCCLIX
RelatedObjects
4846
med
watercolor on paper
creator_ids
33560
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
3271
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
mediaId
bf8de9594631e7fa
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
mediaId
5d384cf396b8a52b
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no
seq
3
type
photo
mediaId
4f382d453246ab4a
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no