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| 1028 |
| Grimm’s Fairy Tales |
| FES Title: | Grimms Fairy Tales | |
| Alternate Titles: | Grimm’s Fairy Tales The duck brings the key of the Wish House (1929, 1934); The Duck Brings the Key of the Wish House |
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| Date: | 06/08/1921 | |
| Size: | 36″H x 28″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | Grimm, The Brothers. Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated with Louis Rhead. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, c. 1917: dust jacket, frontispiece, cover. no caption ______. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, c. 1917: cover, frontispiece. ______. New York: Books, Inc., c. 1917: frontispiece. Schoonover, Cortlandt. Frank Schoonover, Illustrator of the North American Frontier. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976: 161. |
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| Inscription: | lr: Frank E. Schoonover / ’21 | |
| Annotations: | en verso upper stretcher: 1028 1921 en verso left stretcher: Grimm’s Fairy Tales (No. 1028) / Price: $600 |
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| Exhibitions: | 1929 WSFA; 1930 WSFA Apt.; 1931 FES; 1934 Wesleyan; 1935 FAO Schwartz; 1939 Syracuse; 1940 Rochester | |
| Comments: | index; edit 11/06; digital; form 4-07; |
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| Commentary: | When John Perkins became the President of the University of Delaware, Judge Morris, President of the Board of Trustees, gave him the painting, saying, ‘Why don’t you put it in the little girl’s room?’ Perkins accepted the gift and put it in the bedroom of his daughter, Margaret Carey Perkins, who eventually inherited it. | |
| Provenance: | Artist; Judge Hugh Morris; gifted to Mr. and Mrs. John A. Perkins, Newark, Delaware [1963]; Margaret Carey Perkins, Newark, Delaware [1963]; private collection [2007] |
