Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece (pointer dog)
Alternate Title(s):Top
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
sight: 11 × 9 3/4 in. (27.9 × 24.8 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.251
Research Number: NCW: 251
InscribedLower right: PART I / END of CHAP. XVI
ProvenancePrivate collection, Chadds Ford, PA
Exhibition HistoryChicago, 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 "Top"
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:B/w photograph from drawing
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum curatorial files