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1924

  • Work on this object began.

1955

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Study for "The peacock bowed before the Lady Eve and she laughed aloud merrily and said: "I am no Goddess of any sort, but the mate of a mere man who, in spite of all, I love beyond and above my soul," Illustration for Rudyard Kipling's "A New Version of What Happened in the Garden of Eden"

This is a Drawing. It is dated August 1924 and we acquired it in 1955. Its medium is brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite, pen and black ink on illustration board. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Martin Birnbaum. It is credited Gift of Martin Birnbaum.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower left margin: Double page (right side); lower center margin: The peacock bowed before the Lady Eve & said:

Cite this object as

Drawing, Study for "The peacock bowed before the Lady Eve and she laughed aloud merrily and said: "I am no Goddess of any sort, but the mate of a mere man who, in spite of all, I love beyond and above my soul," Illustration for Rudyard Kipling's "A New Version of What Happened in the Garden of Eden"; England; brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite, pen and black ink on illustration board; Gift of Martin Birnbaum; 1955-68-2

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