The Courtship of Miles Standish, untitled headpiece illustration (group of Pilgrims marching through landscape)

Artist:

N.C. Wyeth

(American, 1882 - 1945)

The Courtship of Miles Standish, untitled headpiece illustration (group of Pilgrims marching through landscape)

Medium: Ink on paper
Date: 1920
Dimensions:
sheet: 9 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. (23.4 x 29.8 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.2347
Research Number: NCW: 2347
InscribedLower right, in ink: HEADING / canto V
ProvenancePrivate collection, Wilmington, DE; (Stuart Kingston Galleries, Wilmington, DE, June 25, 1998); (Illustration House, New York, Nov. 7, 1998, lot no. 108)
References Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 212; Christine B. Podmaniczky, "An Album of Drawings by N. C. Wyeth," The Hunt Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1996, ps. 18-19
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital scan from tear sheet, Brandywine River Museum library
Photo Credit:BRM staff