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The Sphinx, Egypt
Elihu VedderApril 18, 1890
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Vertical rectangle. In the foreground, the head of the sphinx, shown in profile, facing left. In the distance, left, the desert and the pyramids. Signed and dated, lower right: "April 18/90 / E. Vedder.."
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- Title: The Sphinx, Egypt
- Creator: Elihu Vedder
- Creator Lifespan: 1836/1923
- Date Created: April 18, 1890
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Medium: Black, white and color crayons on blue-gray wove paper
- Exhibitions: Traveling Exhibition Service of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., "Paintings and Drawings by Elihu Vedder," October 1966, through February 1968, cat. #72.Satellite Exhibition: Brooklyn Museum 1976 October 6 - Nov 25Exhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art (downtown) NY NY "The Symbolist Mood Around 1900" Nov 2-Dec 6 1978; checklist pg 4The Century Club, "Drawings by Centurions, lent by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum" Feb. 13-March 4, 1979.
- Dimensions: Image: 32.7 x 19.7 cm (12 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.)Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
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