Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Prestongrange
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1924
Dimensions:
34 × 25 in. (86.4 × 63.5 cm)
American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY
On loan to the National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI
Accession number: SUPP2000.1384
Research Number: NCW: 1384
ProvenanceThe artist; (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY); Hoyt Collection, Katonah, NY, 1925 - ca. 1940; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Turner, ca. 1940; Robert and Rosemary Turner; (Phillips, New York, NY, Jan. 20, 1998, lot no. 282)
References
Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 219; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.970, p. 468; Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour, Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad, edited by Barry Menikoff, San Marino, CA: Huntington Library Press, 2016, plate no. 2
Curatorial RemarksThe artist's library includes Scribner's 1905 unillustrated edition of the story (NCWS.95.203) which Wyeth read and marked in preparation for the commission.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:photography directly from artwork
Photo Credit:Courtesy the Archive of the American Illustrators Gallery, NYC