N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945)The Courtship of Miles Standish, untitled headpiece illustration (woman knitting in doorway)1920Ink on paper, image: 3 1/8 x 5 9/16 in. (7.9 x 14.1 cm); sheet: 10 7/16 x 13 7/8 in. (26.6 x 35.2 cm) Brandywine River MuseumPurchased with funds given in memory of William Forbes Wilcox, 1998
NCW NUMBER
2345
TITLE
The Courtship of Miles Standish, untitled headpiece illustration (woman knitting in doorway)
MEDIUM
Ink on paper
INSCRIPTION(S), LABEL(S)
Lower right, in ink: HEADING / canto III
DATE
1920
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Wilmington, DE; (Stuart Kingston Galleries, Wilmington, DE, auction June 25, 1998); (Illustration House, New York, NY)
INITIAL USE
Headpiece illustration, p. 31, The Courtship of Miles Standish (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920)
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
