Three Designs for Enamel Buttons

Edgar Gilstrap Simpson

1899 · Graphite and gouache · Drawings and Prints

Three designs for enamel buttons in red, green, gold and silver. The first two designs show plant motifs on a blackground. The plants red berries or flowers with a gilt center. The third design is silver and divided into two fields like a ying yang sign, one in black and one in red. It has a silver flower meandering across the red field and a string with three precious stones across the black half.

Artist

Edgar Gilstrap Simpson

Date

1899

Medium

Graphite and gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959