Tail-Peice - The History of the Book

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: c. 1888
Medium: Charcoal, with black ink, heightened with touches of white gouache, on cream wood-pulp laminate board (discolored to tan)
Dimensions: 22.6 × 35.9 cm (8 15/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: drawings (visual works)
Place: United States
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Elizabeth Hammond Stickney
Accession no.: 1902.209

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