Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece (group of men on beach, at foot of cliffs)
Alternate Title(s):The cliffs at Mandible Cape
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
11 1/8 × 9 3/4 in. (28.3 × 24.8 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.79
Research Number: NCW: 79
InscribedLower right: PART I / CHAP. IV (note that this citation is incorrect in published book)
ProvenancePrivate collection, Chadds Ford, PA
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1972, no. 75; 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, Inc., 1972), p. 222 as "The cliffs at Mandible Cape"
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).