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Sinking of the Yawl Boat
FES Title: Sinking of yawl boat
Alternate Titles: Illustrations in black and white oil, illustrating a book entitled “A Jersey Boy in the Revolution,” published by messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Company, and loaned to the Exhibition by the courtesy of the publishers.
[1899]
Date: 08/1899
Size: 13″H x 8″W
Medium: oil_illustration_grisaille
Type: illustration
Published: Tomlinson, Everett E. A Jersey Boy in the Revolution. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899: frontispiece.
caption: A ball had crashed through the side
Pitz, Henry C. “Frank E. Schoonover: An Exemplar of the Pyle Tradition.” American Artist, November 1964: 64.
caption: …and, right, a reproduction of it made for it for the book: In the Hands of the Redcoats, published by Houghton-Mifflin Company, BostonSchoonover, Cortlandt. Frank Schoonover, Illustrator of the North American Frontier. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976: 152.
caption: Sinking of the Yawl BoatBrandywine River Museum. Frank E. Schoonover, Illustrator. Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine River Museum, 1979: 10, 53.
caption: Sinking of the Yawl Boat, 1899Brandywine River Museum. Catalogue of the Collection 1969-89. Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy, 1991: 170. [not pictured]
Inscription: ll: Frank E. Schoonover
Annotations:
Exhibitions: 1899 Drexel Summer; 1962 FES; 1979 FES (catalog)
Comments: BRM #85.10.92
TP 10/13/04; index; edit
Commentary:
Provenance: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston (1899 exhibition); Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wyeth, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Gift of Mr and Mrs. Andrew Wyeth [1985]