Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece [four male figures lying on ground]
Alternate Title(s):The dead convicts.
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
sight: 9 1/4 × 11 1/4 in. (23.5 × 28.6 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.309
Research Number: NCW: 309
InscribedLower right: PART III / END of CHAP. XII
ProvenancePrivate collection, Chadds Ford, PA
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); Chicago, IL, 1997
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), ps. 601-602; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 222 as "The dead convicts."
Curatorial RemarksThe artist completed all of the pen and ink drawings for The Mysterious Island during the first two weeks of August, 1918 (NCW to HZW, 8/14/1918, Wyeth Family Archives).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:B/w photography directly from drawing
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum curatorial files