# Design for Title Page Heading of "The Scarlet Thorn" by John Burroughs

- By: Harry Fenn (American, 1845–1911)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of E. Maurice Bloch
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/102532)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/40a79a308bb68f3ee42585ad31760300.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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)