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The Giant's Grandmother Sat in the Huge Armchair
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Elenore Plaisted Abbott
(American, 1875 - 1935)
The Giant's Grandmother Sat in the Huge Armchair
Watercolor on board
1924
10 × 14 in. (25.4 × 35.6 cm)
2011.6
Purchased with Museum funds, 2011
Not on view
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On a Rude Throne Sat the Mother
Elenore Plaisted Abbott
ca. 1914
Presently I Found I Was Holding to a Spar
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ca. 1913
We Retired to Our Airy Castle
Elenore Plaisted Abbott
ca. 1914
The Clusters of Grapes Were Ripe and Rich
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The Monkey Resumed His Place
Elenore Plaisted Abbott
ca. 1914
I Was Despairing When the Bird Returned
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ca. 1914
Orlando and the Giant Ferragus
Orlando's utmost skill only availed to keep him out of the giant's clutches, but all his efforts to wound him with a sword were useless
N.C. Wyeth
1924
The Emperor Lay in his Huge Magnificent Bed
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
1965
Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle
Howard Pyle
1892
The Giant
William Wallace Denslow
1903
Jack the Giant-Killer, composition drawing
N.C. Wyeth
ca. 1938
I am Captain John Mackra ("I am Captain John Mackra," Said I, and I Sat Down upon the Gunwale of the Boat)
Howard Pyle
1887