Brandywine Museum of Art/Works/I ran aft to the clear space abaft the funnel, and there I found the spiggoties shtandin', holdin' a council av war. I fired into the thick av them and had five av them down when that thievin' engineer come sneakin' up behind me and shtruck me on the back av the head wit' a monkey wrench/

I ran aft to the clear space abaft the funnel, and there I found the spiggoties shtandin', holdin' a council av war. I fired into the thick av them and had five av them down when that thievin' engineer come sneakin' up behind me and shtruck me on the back av the head wit' a monkey wrench

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

I ran aft to the clear space abaft the funnel, and there I found the spiggoties shtandin', holdin' a council av war. I fired into the thick av them and had five av them down when that thievin' engineer come sneakin' up behind me and shtruck me on the back av the head wit' a monkey wrench

Date: 1914
Dimensions:
dimensions unavailable
known by reproduction only
Accession number: SUPP2000.1617
Research Number: NCW: 1617
InscribedLower left: N. C. WYETH (underlined, from reproduction)
References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 255; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.545, p. 298
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency from mounted tear sheet, Brandywine River Museum Library
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 7/19/2005