Antony approaching Cleopatra, Meïamoun lying dead at her feet [graphic] / Lee Woodward Zeigler.
1900
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library ART Box Z45 no.1
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Title
Antony approaching Cleopatra, Meïamoun lying dead at her feet [graphic] / Lee Woodward Zeigler.
Created/published
ca. 1900.
Description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 16 x 22 1/2 in. (40.9 x 58 cm)
Associated name
Zeigler, Lee Woodward, 1868-1952, artist.
Material base
canvas
Note
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Engravings: Photogravure frontispiece to "The Works of Théophile Gautier, translated and edited by F. C. de Sumichrast, New York, 1901, vol. 8, with the caption, "'By Hercules, my lovely Queen, though I travelled fast, I see I have come too late,' said Marc Antony.-Page 284." (This is the 24-volume edition. When the series was published in 12 volumes, this frontispiece was one of the plates that was dropped)
Source of acquisition
Anderson Galleries, Continuation of Anderson Auction Company, Madison Ave. at 40th St., New York [1915]; 489 Park Ave. at 59th St. [1917]; from September 1929 combined with American Art Association, 18-19 (19) January 1917, lot 289.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 94
Linked resources
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library ART Box Z45 no.1
Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
ART Box Z45 no.1
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