The deer, stricken to his death, fell with a crash to the ground
Date1883
Artist
Arthur Burdett Frost
(American illustrator and author, 1851–1928)
Illustration Citation"How John Norton Kept His Christmas," by W. H. H. Murray, Harper's Weekly, December 22, 1883.
MediumInk, graphite, and white gouache on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 7 13/16 × 11 9/16 in. (19.8 × 29.4 cm)
sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 in. (25.7 × 33 cm)
sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 in. (25.7 × 33 cm)
Credit LineGayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund, 2007
Object number2007-63.4
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis scene and the line of dialogue on the obverse indicate that it was an illustration for the story "How John Norton The Trapper Kept His Christmas," by W. H. H. Murray, which appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1883. In Frost's inscriptions, he misquotes the name of the title character, calling him John Martin. Here Norton shoots a deer that will become dinner for himself and a poor woman and her family in a nearby cabin.
