Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Courtship of Miles Standish, untitled headpiece illustration (woman knitting in doorway)
Medium: Ink on paper
Date: 1920
Dimensions:
10 7/16 × 13 7/8 in. (26.5 × 35.2 cm)
Brandywine River Museum of Art, Purchased with funds given in memory of William Forbes Wilcox, 1998
Accession number: 98.3
Research Number: NCW: 2345
InscribedLower right, in ink: HEADING / canto III
ProvenancePrivate collection, Wilmington, DE; (Stuart Kingston Galleries, Wilmington, DE, auction June 25, 1998); (Illustration House, New York, NY)
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:Photography directly from artwork