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| 2293 |
| Sir Francis Drake |
| FES Title: | DuPont / Sir Francis Drake / Landed at ‘Nova Albion’ June 17th – to July 23rd 1579 | |
| Alternate Titles: | Francis Drake at Nova Albion June 17, 1759 (Christie’s 1979); | |
| Date: | 07/10/1941 | |
| Size: | 30″H x 42″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | du Pont Safety Calendar. Wilmington, DE: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Inc., 1942: March. caption: Sir Francis Drake |
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| Inscription: | lr: Frank E. Schoonover / B – 1941 | |
| Annotations: | en verso: June 17, 1579 no 2290 / painted at Bushkill / June 1941 / Francis Drake / at Nova Albion – June 17, 1579 / Drake established claim to region (now part of California) in the name of Queen / Elizabeth of England | |
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| Comments: | TP 1/15/02; NT 4×5 |
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| Commentary: | Schoonover worked on this painting while at Bushkill and both M.C.S. (his wife, Martha Culbertson Schoonover) and Biz (his daughter, Elizabeth) posed for the backs of the figures in the painting. (day books) The Picture Puzzle Exchange in Boston, Massachusetts used the image for a boxed, interlocking, jigsaw puzzle. (circa 1950) |
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| Provenance: | Sold by artist to Marchall W. Hall (December 1943); Christie’s, New York (October 24, 1979); Sotheby’s, New York (October 17, 1980); Robert and Irene Snyder, Newark, Delaware (1980); Collection of John and Elizabeth Moore (May 2003); private collection (November 2013) |
