id:			119940
accession number:	1940.738
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.738
updated:		2024-11-18 23:41:23.652000

L’Illustration: The Queen of Sheba, 1911. Edmund Dulac (British, 1882–1953). Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and gouache, with graphite and color wax crayon, on artist’s drawing board; sheet: 31.6 x 25.4 cm (12 7/16 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of James Parmelee 1940.738

title:				The Queen of Sheba
title in original language:	
series:				L’Illustration
series in original language:	
creation date:			1911
creation date earliest:		1911
creation date latest:		1911
current location:		
creditline:			Bequest of James Parmelee
copyright:			

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culture:	England, 20th century
technique:	Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and gouache, with graphite and color wax crayon, on artist’s drawing board
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - British
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Edmund Dulac (British, 1882–1953)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 31.6 x 25.4 cm (12 7/16 x 10 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	artist's drawing board
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed and dated, in black ink, at lower left: Edmund / Dulac 11
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art 
	opening date:   2013-02-10T00:00:00
	<i>British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art </i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).

	title:		Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art
	opening date:   2024-05-04T04:00:00
	<i>Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 4-September 8, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	James Parmelee [1855-1931], Washington, DC, by descent to Alice Maury Parmelee, Washington, DC
	date: ?-1931
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	Alice Maury Parmelee [1862-1940], Washington, DC, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1931-1940
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1940-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>L'Illustration</em> (1911).
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	White, Colin. <em>Edmund Dulac</em>. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 49-50
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	Hughey, Ann Conolly. <em>Edmund Dulac: His Book Illustrations, A Bibliography</em>. Potomac, MD: Buttonwood Press, 1995.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 28
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	Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 138-41, 145, no. 48a; Reproduced: p. 139
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