Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece [cliff dwellers descending a ladder]
Alternate Title(s):Granite House.
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
sight: 9 × 11 in. (22.9 × 27.9 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.307
Research Number: NCW: 307
InscribedLower right: PART I / END of CHAP. XIX; upper right: (circled) 15
ProvenancePrivate collection, Chadds Ford, PA
Exhibition HistoryChadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); 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, 1972), p. 222 as "Granite House."
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 photography directy from drawing
Photo Credit:Brandywine River Museum curatorial files