Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
The Mysterious Island, untitled tailpiece (vigil at bedside)
Alternate Title(s):Untitled (Vigilance at sickbed); Pencroft and wounded Herbert.
Medium: Ink on illustration board
Date: 1918
Dimensions:
9 1/2 × 11 1/2 in. (24.1 × 29.2 cm)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wyeth, 1985
Accession number: 85.10.112
Research Number: NCW: 1217
InscribedLower right: PART III / END of CHAP. VIII; u.r.: [circled] 43; on verso in pencil: Wyeth--Mysterious Island / #23 / 9 1/4 x 11 1/4
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, letter numbers 492, 493; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 222 as "Pencroft and wounded Herbert."; Brandywine River Museum, Catalogue of the Collection, 1969-1989 (Brandywine Conservancy, 1991), p. 210
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 print