Harold von Schmidt Collection

(GC119)

Item Listing
by
Vicki Principi

Graphic Arts Collection
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University Library
2005



Consists of drawings by Von Schmidt: four pen-and-ink ornamental page designs, one frontispiece, and eight pen-and-ink illustrations for Willa Cather's "'December Night': A Scene from Death Comes for the Archbishop" (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1933), printed by the Pynson Printers under the supervision of Elmer Adler.

Box 1 contents [Entire collection]:
Archbishop holding candle near humble woman; pen and ink, tempera
Archbishop in shadows; pen and ink, tempera
Archbishop walking through doorway; pen and ink, tempera
Frontispiece; pen and ink, tempera
Page 6, Archbishop with arm around cloaked figure; pen and ink, tempera
Page 9, Robed figure near mule; pen and ink, tempera
Page 10, Crowd watching figure pass by; pen and ink, tempera
Page 11, Children watching musicians; pen and ink, tempera
Virgin and child; pen and ink, tempera
Untitled [Ornamental border with one cherub]; brown ink, tempera
Untitled [Ornamental border with two cherubs holding chalice]; brown ink, tempera
Untitled [Ornamental border with two cherubs holding emblem, 'IHS']; brown ink, tempera
Untitled [Ornamental border with Virgin and Child]; brown ink, tempera



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