The Councilors Return to the Palace with Their Reports
Date1893
Artist
Daniel Carter Beard
(American illustrator and naturalist, 1850–1941)
Illustration Citation"The Prince's Councilors," by Tudor Jenks, in St. Nicholas, October 1893.
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 21 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (54 × 41.3 cm)
mat: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm)
mat: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-133
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextDan Beard was an author, illustrator (most famously for Mark Twain), youth leader, and a founder of the Scouts of America. Much of his work was in a naturalistic style, but his illustrations for humorous children's stories were graceful and refined, suited to their imaginary world. Beard may have been making an ironic political comment here, depicting the King's councilors "all reading their reports to one another, and none listening."
