Punchinello in the house of death
Item Information
- Title:
- Punchinello in the house of death
- Description:
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[Drawing] appeared in the hardcover edition of "The Wind Bloweth," published in 1922 by the Century Company, New York. The same drawing also illustrated the second part of the serialized version in "Century Magazine," May 1922. (Mason)
- Artist:
- Bellows, George, 1882-1925
- Name on Item:
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Geo Bellows
- Date:
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1922
- Format:
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Drawings/Illustrations
- Genre:
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Crayon drawings
Ink drawings
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Clowns
Picnics
Deathbeds
Punchinello (Fictitious character)
- Extent:
- 1 drawing : crayon, ink, and graphite on board ; sheet 56 x 67 cm
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- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7d279v91d
- Terms of Use:
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- Notes:
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Title from item.
Study for the lithograph of the same title (Mason: M. 151; Bellows: B. 109).
Additional information accompanying item: Signed "Geo Bellows" along lower edge. Also words in margin in pencil "Punchinello in the House of Death," in ink "The Wake at Ardee, the house of death became a booth of Puncinello." Part of "the Wind Bloweth."
Drawing published in Century magazine in May 1922 to illustrate "The Wake at Ardee," the second of six serial parts of "The Wind Bloweth" by Donne Byrne.
- Notes (acquisition):
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Sold by H.V. Allison Galleries to Albert H. Wiggin, June 1943. Gifted to the Boston Public Library.
- Notes (date):
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Date from material accompanying item.
- Notes (citation):
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Mason, Lauris. "The lithographs of George Bellows : a catalogue raisonné." KTO Press, 1977, Millwood, N.Y.
Bellows, Emma. "George W. Bellows : his lithographs." A. A. Knopf, 1927, New York.
- Accession #:
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1943.1.18
- Identifier:
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06_05_000033
- Barcode:
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36666003814643
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