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Design for Title Page Heading of "The Scarlet Thorn" by John Burroughs
Harry Fenn (American, 1845–1911)
1892
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on off-white illustration board
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27.3 x 37.6 cm (10 3/4 x 14 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- USA
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of E. Maurice Bloch
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Above the title, author and Initial letter (I) there is an arrangement of leaves, blossoms, berries and thorn branches labeled "Washington Thorn" (lower left); "White Thorn" (upper left); "Apple Haw" (upper right)
