Composition study for 'A pavane'

Abbey, Edwin Austin (1852-1911)

Item type:

drawing

Height:

36.0 cm  (14 3/16 in.)

Width:

52.8 cm  (20 13/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

pen and ink, graphite, cream wove paper

Description

Sketch includes couples dancing in the foreground, and suggests at least two musicians (with bowed and plucked string instruments) within a colonnade in the background.

Iconclass

43A23
ball, formal dance
43C9
dancing
48C75
making music; musician with instrument

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Mandolin [3510] (or similar instrument)
Violin [3573] (or other shoulder-held instrument with bow)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

This item is part of a group of works within the Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection at Yale. Individually numbered 1937.2309 through 1937.2316, all are possibly or specifically related to Abbey's painting "A Pavane," held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (RIdIM item 5920). See also RIdIM items 6106, 6107, 6108, 6110, 6111, 6112, 6113.

RIdIM record id

6109