Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece [Mercy River]
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
image size, approximately 7 × 10 in. (17.8 × 25.4 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1525
Research Number: NCW: 1525
InscribedOn reverse, an inscription partially obscurred bu "Wyeth" and "Mysterious" can be deciphered
ProvenanceThe artist; John Denys and Etta Zirngiebel; descended in family
References
Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (Boston: Gambit, 1971), ps. 601-602, letter numbers 492, 493; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 222 as "Mercy River."
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). John Denys Zirngiebel was the artist's uncle.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork