Sketch and notes for The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield
Datec. 1904
Artist
Frank Earle Schoonover
(American illustrator and painter, 1877–1972)
Illustration CitationThe Boy Captive of Old Deerfield, by Mary P. Wells Smith (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929)
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionssheet: 6 3/8 × 10 3/8 in. (16.2 × 26.3 cm)
Credit LineFound in collection, 2018
Object number2018-48
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThe Boy Captive of Old Deerfield was the first of four historical novels in the Old Deerfield Series. The plot revolves around the 1794 attack on the Deerfield, Massachusetts English settlement by Native American and French allies. Captives taken to Canada included 10 year old Stephen Williams, who was held for fourteen months.
