
Solitude: Miss Vesta Rollinstall
Edwin Austin AbbeyWW-1878-274921
Catalogue
- Year
- 1878
- Medium
- graphite
- Dimensions
- sheet: 42.8 × 20.6 cm (16 7/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- Edwin Austin Abbey
Artist

Edwin Austin Abbey
Painting
Edwin Austin Abbey was an American muralist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's coronation. His most famous set of murals, The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, adorns the Boston Central Library.
Full artist profile →More
More by Edwin Austin Abbey
A Happy New Year
1900 · graphite
WW-1900-289989
"King Lear," Act I, Scene I
1898 · Oil on canvas
WW-1898-006243
"Who Is Sylvia? What Is She, That All the Swains Commend Her?"
1896 · oil on canvas
WW-1896-289864
Dirge of the Three Queens
1895 · Pastel on paper
WW-1895-006245
The Queen in "Hamlet"
1895 · pastel on paperboard
WW-1895-073919
The Letter
1890 · Ink on paper
WW-1890-206901
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Edwin Austin Abbey
- Year
- 1878
- Medium
- graphite
- Dimensions
- sheet: 42.8 × 20.6 cm (16 7/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1878-274921
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





