Shut from the Busy World of More Incredulous

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Quick Overview

Artist: Will Hicock Low / American, 1853-1932
Date: 1885
Medium: Black and gray gouache, heightened with white gouache, over traces of graphite, on cream wove card (discolored to tan)
Dimensions: 33.8 × 42.5 cm (13 5/16 × 16 3/4 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: drawings (visual works)
Place: United States
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Elizabeth Hammond Stickney
Accession no.: 1902.195

Dedication (Odes and Sonnets)
Will Hicock Low
1887 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000955
Sonnet: "When I have fears that I may cease to be"
Will Hicock Low
1887 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000956
Ode on Melancholy
Will Hicock Low
1887 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000957
Ode: "Bards of passion and of mirth"
Will Hicock Low
1887 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000958