614a
So, I Drifted Away to Seaward
FES Title: So, I drifted away to seaward
Alternate Titles: “Rounding the Horn”; Cast Adrift off Carolina
[1930]; Adrift Off Cape Horn [1962]
Date: 03/02/1914
Size: 40.25″H x 30.125″W
Medium: oil_single-prime-lincanvas
Type: illustration
Published: Robertson, Morgan. “The Poison Ship.” Harper’s Magazine, May 1915: facing 956.
caption: I was too hazy of mind to see that there were no oars

Swan, Oliver G. Deep Water Days. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929: facing 208.
caption: Not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery ever finds a public record at home

______. Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith Co., 1929: 240.
caption: [same as above]

Apgar, John F., Jr. Frank E. Schoonover, Painter-Illustrator: A Bibliography. Morristown, NJ: John F. Apgar, Jr., 1969: 18.
caption: Adrift Off Cape Horn. Illustration from the Story The Poison Ship by Morgan Robertson, Harper’s Monthly Magazine, May 1915. The illustration also appears in the book Deep Water Days by Oliver Swan.
Inscription: lr: Frank E. Schoonover / ’14
Annotations:
Exhibitions: 1930 WSFA Apt.; 1962 Bank of Delaware
Comments: tearsheets #614a; TP 5/15/03; form 5/15/03; index; edit
Commentary:
Provenance: Sold by artist to Charles D. Walls, Hershey, Pennsylvania (circa 1964); private collection [2001]