Isis Pen-and-Ink Drawing. Edwin Howland Blashfield. Start Price USD 55.00 Current Price USD 55.00 Time Left 14 days 20 hours 36 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, October 25, 2008 End Time Friday, January 23, 2009 Location Lancaster County, PA See more about 'Isis Pen-and-Ink Drawing. Edwin Howland Blashfield.' Description Lee Jay Stoltzfus: Rare Books. Excellent Prices. -- No Secret Reserve Price -- ________________ An Original Pen-and-Ink Drawing of the Egyptian Goddess Isis Presumedly Created by American Artist Edwin Howland Blashfield... ...in the Late 1800s On a Scrapbook Page Assembled by Philadelphia Publisher Robert Barrie Drawing Paper Size: 103 x 77 mm (4 x 3 inches) Scrapbook Page Size: 280 x 214 mm (11 x 8-1/2 inches) Drawn of Card-Stock Paper Above:  Pen-and-Ink Drawing of Isis, Goddess of Egyptian Mythology _______________________________ Above: The Drawing is on a Scrapbook Page... ... Assembled by Philadelphia Publisher Robert Barrie in the Early 1900s. _______________________________ Above: The Drawing Faces a Portrait of Edwin Howland Blashfield... ...The Amerian Artist who Presumedly Created this Drawing. _______________________________ Above:  Detail of the Pen-and-Ink Drawing _______________________________ Above:  The Reverse Side of the Scrapbook Page (A Print of An Un-Identified Painting) _______________________________ Isis and Edwin Howland Blashfield _____________________________________________________ Edwin Howland Blashfield: Edwin Blashfield (born 1848 - died 1936) was an American artist who specialized in mural painting and mosaic design. Blashfield was born in New York City, studied under Léon Bonnat in Paris. Beginning in the 1890s, Blashfield worked mainly as a muralist and fresco painter. His works include the Library of Congress dome, decorations for the state capitols at Madison, Wisconsin, Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Des Moines, Iowa, plus a mosaic for the St. Matthew's Cathedral, Washington, D.C. Plus he painted a dome in the manufacturer's building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.  He painted a mural in the governor's office in Pierre, South Dakota, the federal courthouse in Baltimore, Maryland, the Mahoning County Court House in Youngstown, Ohio, the Detroit Public Library, the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, Blashfield also maintained a studio in Little Compton, Rhode Island, during the summer. Blashfield also authored the books Mural Painting in America (1913), and co-edited Vassari's Lives of the Painters, with Mrs. Blashfield and A. A. Hopkins. He exhibited throughout the U. S., Britain, and Europe, including the royal academies of London and Edinburgh, and the national academy at Dublin, Irleand.  He also exhibited at the Paris Salon. He also created paintings and murals for numerous private homes, such as the home of Collis P. Huntington, George W. Drexel, and W. K. Vanderbilt.  Plus he lectured on art at Columbia University, Harvard, and Yale.  Today, Blashfield is considered an important artist of the American Renaissance. He was president of the Society of Mural Painters, and of the Society of American Artists. His style had much influence on later artists, such as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jean-Paul Laurens, and Paul Baudr.  He is also know for painting Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Blashfield's paitings are in major collections such as the New York's Metropolitian Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Crocker Museum of Art in California, The Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Smithsonian. Edwin Howland Blashfield and Paintings of Egypt: Although I am not certain exactly when Blashfield created this pen-and-ink drawing, it could be circa the 1880s.  In 1887 and 1888, Blashfield's Egyptian paintings were exibited at the Third Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries. His Egyptian paintings at that exhibition included: Hypostyle Hall, Great Temple of Ammon at Karmak, Thebes, plus the painting Temple of Kom Ombos, Upper Egypt, plus the painting First Court, Temple of Ramses III, at Medmet Haboo, Thebes, pus the painting Interior of a Pottery at Keneh, Upper Egypt,  plus the painting Exterior of Temple of Isis on the Island Philae in Northern Nubia, and the painting Interior of Temple of Isis on the Island Philae in Southern Nubia. Plus the Brooklyn Musuem has a Blashfield painting titled Island of Elephantine (Egypt) which was painted cica 1886 to 1891. From a Scrapbook Assembled by Publisher Robert Barrie of Philadelphia: These items were in a scrapbook assembled by Philadelphia publisher Robert Barrie in the late 1800s and early 1900s. (The last dated item in the scrapbook is 1937, with most items dated in the first decade of the 1900s.) Note: I recently offered on Ebay another scrapbook by Robert Barrie, about yachting. I sold that yaching scrapbook complete as I purchased it. The items I offer here comes from a second Robert Barrie scrapbook, whose pages I am selling individually, because of the diversity of items in this second scrapbook. I purchased these scrapbooks at an estate auction here in Pennsylvania. This Robert Barrie was the son of publisher George Barrie, a Scottish-American immigrant who founded the Philadelphia publishing house Barrie and Sons. George Barrie was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Here in Philadelphia, George Barrie was first employed by the publisher J. B. Lippincott, before starting his own publishing company in 1873, with the assistance of his sons, this Robert Barrie and George Barrie Jr. Barrie publishing house was very successful, and was internationally know as a publisher of fine art works, prints, and books. The Barrie publisher received medals at all the leading exhibitions, including the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the 1889 expo in Paris, in 1893 at Chicago, and in 1900 at Paris. Robert Barrie was actively involved in the Paris art scene, in the late 1800s, and turn of the century. As described in a 1904 Who's Who in Pennsylvania: "Of all the Americans now in Paris, few have a better knowledge of the serious side of French life and a higher respect for French art and industry than Mr. Robert Barrie, junior member of the firm of George Barrie and Son publishers, of Philadelphia. Mr. Barrie has made numerous visits to Paris during the past 15 years, some of them extending over six months, and during this time his relations with French artists have been most cordial and extensive." Robert Barrie assembled this scrapbook to collect items related to his friendship with European and American artists and writers in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This scrapbook page with the Isis drawing also includes a magazine clipping of French artist Francois Flameng. Condition:  The drawing is on card-stock paper, and is glued to the scrapbook page, although the lower half of the drawing is no longer attached to the page, as that lower part of the drawing has become loose from that page. The scrapbook page and its items are bright and clean, because the scrapbook page paper is Not acidic. ---- --Check / Money Order (Credit Card Also Payable to Me By Telephone or Email. ) Check or Money Order Also Accepted. $7.00 priority mailing in U.S. and Canada. I Will Mail to Any Country.  Overseas air mail is $12.00. Prompt Shipping--I Mail the Day After I Receive Payment. Shipping by Post Office, Unless Other Shipping Requested. Pennsylvania Buyers add 6 % Sales Tax, or Send Tax Number. Offered by:  Lee Jay Stoltzfus - Your Family Heirlooms Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. U.S.A. 27 Lititz Run Road.   Lititz, PA 17543 Telephone: (717) 371-7320 Send e-mail to me here, if you have questions. Satisfaction guaranteed, or you are welcome to return purchase. Place a Bid!