1527
“I Tell You, Men Now, You’ll Have to Kill Me Before You Harm Him””
FES Title: “I tell you men now you’ll have to kill me before you harm him.”
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Date: 01/25/1927
Size: 30″H x 38″W
Medium: oil-on-Linen-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Cleveland, H.I. “The Girl of Tiptop.” Youth’s Companion, 10 March 1927: 171.
caption: “I’m only a girl,” said Martha, “but I tell you men now you’ll have to kill me before you harm him. I come from a country where we deal in fair play!”

Harper, Wilhelmina, ed. The Girl of Tiptop. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1929: frontispiece.
caption: “I’ll tell you men,” said Martha, “you’ll have to kill me before you harm him. I came from a country where we deal in fair play!” (Page 13)
Inscription: mr: F.E. Schoonover / ’27
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Comments: DAM 6/04 index; edit
Commentary: This was originally created as #1509, but not published with the intended story. It was renumbered and used as #1527. It was one of the works destroyed by the artist before January 18, 1935.
Provenance: Destroyed