Design for the cover of "Catholic Anthology"

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Artist/Maker Dorothy Shakespear (British, 1886 – 1973)

Date1914-15

MediumIndia ink and graphite on paper

DimensionsComposition: 10 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (26.7 × 16.5 cm) Sheet (Irregular): 12 in. × 8 1/4 in. (30.5 × 21 cm)

Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951

Object number1994.95

Not on view

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Alternate Titles Cover design for "Catholic Anthology"

Exhibition History 2018-19
Clinton, NY (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College). Permanent collection gallery case on Dorothy Shakespear curated by Elizabeth Spangenthal '18. May 2018 - May 2019 (no publication);

2011
Durham, NC (Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University). "Vorticism in London and New York, 1914-1918," September 30, 2010 - January 2, 2011. Traveled to: Venezia, Italy (Peggy Guggenheim Collection), January 29 - May 22, 2011; London, England (Tate Britain), June 22 - September 18, 2011;

1997
Nacogdoches, TX (SFA Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University). "Dorothy Shakespear (1886 - 1973)," November 3 - December 5, 1997 (cat. no. 9, illus., 3);

1996
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "The Introspective Eye: Dorothy Shakespear's Modernist Vision," November 2, 1996 - January 5, 1997;

1992
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Rebels & Romantics: Some British Moderns and Their Work," June 6 - September 6, 1992 (cat. no. 40, illus., 43).

Provenance 1994: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Omar S. Pound;
c. 1973 - 1994: Omar S. Pound, by inheritance from his mother, Dorothy Shakespear.

Markings None noted.

Published References David Lewis, ed., REBELS & ROMANTICS: SOME BRITISH MODERNS AND THEIR WORK, exh. cat. (Clinton, NY: Fred L. Emerson Gallery, 1992), p. 43, [checklist] 65, illus., 43;

Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, "Acquisitions 1994," FRIENDS OF ART NEWSLETTER (August 1995);

David Lewis and Omar S. Pound, DOROTHY SHAKESPEAR (1886 - 1973), exh. cat. (Nacogdoches, TX: SFA Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1997), p. 1, 8, illus., 3;

Mark Antliff and Vivien Greene, eds., THE VORTICISTS, exh. cat. (London: Tate Publishing, 2010), p. 144, illus., 50.

Signature Initialed "DS" in ink at lower right below composition.

Inscribed "Piece done for ty[illegible]" at upper center in pencil; "(TOP.)" at upper right corner in ink; "7h [sideways]" at center left in pencil; "7597" on verso at center right in pencil; "Original / for / front of / "Catholic / anthology" " on verso at center in pencil; "7597 [encircled]" on verso at lower right in pencil; "4 [encircled]" on verso at upper left in pencil.