Three Designs for Jewelry with a Beetle Motif

Edgar Gilstrap Simpson

1899 · Graphite and gouache · Drawings and Prints

Three designs for jewelry, all decorated with beetles. The first design is for a symmetric brooch with meandering openwork and two beetles. In the middle a stickpin is depicted crowned by a beetle under an arch of silver openwork. The third design shows an ornament for a brooch or pin and is characterized by two beetles which face each other. The designs are individually numbered (continuous from the previous pages).

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