815
The Old Man Sat and Talked With Me for Hours
FES Title: The old man sat and talked with me for hours
Alternate Titles:
Date: 08/21/1917
Size: 34″H x 25″W
Medium: oil_single-prime-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Burroughs, Edgar Rice. A Princess of Mars. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1917: 224.
caption: The old man sat and talked with me for hours.

______. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1917: facing 226.
caption:

[same as above]

Burroughs, Edgar Rice. A Princes of Mars and A Fighting Man of Mars. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1964: facing 112.
caption: The old man sat and talked with me for hours.

Cochran, Russ. Edgar Rice Burroughs Library of Illustration, Vol. 1. West Plains, MO: Russ Cochran, 1976: 105.
caption: A Princess of Mars

Burroughs, Edgar Rice. A Princess of Mars. Utah: Quiet Vision Publishing, 2001.
caption: The old man sat and talked with me for hours.

______. New York: The Modern Library, 2003: 138.
caption: [same as above]
Inscription: lr: F.E. Schoonover /’17
Annotations: en verso on label upper stretcher: For “The Princess of Mars / caption: “- / The Old Man sat and talked with me (John Carter) for hours. / Canvas 25×34 Best English Linen. S.P. / Painted at Bushkill Pa. August 1917 / number 815
en verso on label on lower frame: Eddie Rutkowsky
Exhibitions:
Comments: original stretcher (as of 6/06)
TP – Texas 6/01/06; form 6/06; index; edit;
Eddie Rutkowsky frame
page number and caption for first citation come from:
A Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs, edited by Henry Hardy Heins. Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1964: 110.
Commentary:
Provenance: Sold by artist to private collection; descended in family to private collection
Current Owner: