Record ID:
406044
Accession number:
MA 8615.5
Published:
[New York, ca. 1942-1943]
Credit:
Purchased on the Heineman Fund, 2014.
Description:
1 drawing.
Notes:
Part of Joseph Cornell's Saint-Exupéry dossier (MA 8615), a collection of drawings and ephemera that Cornell assembled to document his friendship with Antoine and Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.
On onionskin paper watermarked "Esleck / Fidelity Onion Skin / MADE IN U.S.A." The drawing is on a half-sheet of 11 x 8 1/2 inch paper; the top of the sheet was torn away and the drawing appears on the bottom half.
Medium:
Brown ink on onionskin paper
Dimensions:
6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (159 x 215 mm), top edge irregular
Provenance:
Joseph Cornell; his sister Helen Jagger; her daughter Helen Jagger Batcheller; her son Edward Batcheller.
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