Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece (exploring the cavern)
Alternate Title(s):Exploring the cavern
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
9 × 11 in. (22.9 × 27.9 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.78
Research Number: NCW: 078
InscribedLower right: PART I / END of CHAP. XVIII; upper right: 14 (circled, with another number in another circle scratched out)
ProvenancePrivate collection, Chadds Ford, PA
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 74; Chadds 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 "Exploring the cavern."
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:Photography directly from drawing
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum photography file