Man Holding a Scroll
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Pen and ink
Dimensions
sheet: 8 5/8 x 5 11/16 in. (21.9 x 14.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964
Accession Number
64.636.3
Art Historical Context
Edwin Austin Abbey's *Man Holding a Scroll*1911) is a delicate pen-and-ink drawing that captures the artist's mastery of line and form in his final year of life. Measuring just 8⅝ × 5¹¹⁄₁₆ inches, this intimate sheet from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Whittelsey Collection exemplifies Abbey's skill in rendering human figures with precision and elegance. The central figure, clutching a scroll, evokes classical or scholarly themes, a motif resonant with Abbey's lifelong fascination with history and literature. Abbey, a leading American illustrator and muralist of the late 19th and early 20th...
About the Artist
Edwin Austin Abbey · 1852–1911
Abbey was one of the leading illustrators during the last quarter of the 19th century. He specialized in illustrating poems and historic novels, including the works of Shakespeare, Pope, and Goldsmith. American illustrator and mural painter. Comment on works: illustrations