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Slowly the Spaniards Gained
FES Title: Slowly the Spaniards gained
Alternate Titles: In Fierce Rushes, The Spaniards Gained…
[1973]; In Fierce Rushes [1975]; “In fierce rushes the Spaniards gained” “With Cortes the Conqueror” [1995]; In Fierce Rushes the Spaniards Advanced [1997]; With Cortes the Conqueror [2001]
Date: 05/30/1917
Size: 36″H x 27″W
Medium: oil-on-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Watson, Virginia. With Cortes the Conqueror. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1917: facing 254.
caption: In fierce rushes the Spaniards gained

______. New York: The Hampton Publishing Company, 1917: facing 254.
caption: [same as above]

Randolph-Macon College and Richard J. Kelly. Howard Pyle and His Students: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration. Ashland, VA: Randolph-Macon College, 1995: np.
caption: “In fierce Rushes the Spaniards gained”

Kelly, Richard J., and Chris Fauver. Art of the Illustrator: Works from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration. Washington, DC: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1997: 11, 20.
caption: No. 26, Frank E. Schoonover / In Fierce Rushes the Spaniards Advanced, 1917
Inscription: ll: Frank E. Schoonover
Annotations:
Exhibitions: 1973 Arizona; 1975 Arizona; 1995 Kelly (catalog); 1997 Kelly (catalog); 2001 FES
Comments: size and medium from 1997 exhibition catalog;
trany from owner; NT 4×5; index; edit
Commentary:
Provenance: Brandywine Galleries Ltd., Albequerque, New Mexico [1975]; Mongerson Gallery, Chicago (April 1976); Phillips, New York (April 2, 1981); Illustration House, New York [1982]; Guernsey’s, New York [1986]; John Biernat, Canada; The Kelly Collection of American Illustration, Great Falls, Virginia [1993]
Current Owner: