Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Pledge at Spunky Point (headpiece illustration for The Pike County Ballads)
Alternate Title(s):"So toddle along with your pledge, Squire"
Date: 1912
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Copyright, 1912, Houghton Mifflin Company
Accession number: SUPP2000.2317
Research Number: NCW: 2317
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 206, as "So toddle along with your pledge, Squire"; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.409, p. 250
Curatorial RemarksThe Brandywine River Museum holds an unmarked copy of "Poems by John Hay," which includes "The Pike County Ballads," published by Houghton Mifflin (1899) and found in the artist's studio (NCWS.95.723).
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Photography from printed image, Brandywine River Museum Library
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 12/2004