Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Story of Tin, composition drawing
Medium: Graphite on paper
Date: ca. 1940
Dimensions:
sight size, 16 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. (42.5 x 36.8 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1536
Research Number: NCW: 1536
InscribedLower right: N.C.W.; in NCW's hand below image: -TIN- / A Phoenician Captain trading / for Tin ingots on the Cornish / Coast
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to ca. 1962; Howard Wyeth; Nathaniel C. Wyeth to 1990;
Curatorial RemarksThis is the composition drawing for "The Story of Tin" (NCW 831), a picture reproduced in "The Romance of Commerce," the 1941 Morrell & Comapny calendar. The Brandywine River Museum holds a lantern slide (NCWS.95.1825.425) of the drawing, used in the transfer of the image from paper to panel.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:b/w print from slide of lantern slide