Studies for "Now beginneth the playful and tragic romance in four fits of the ten fatigued pirates, who, seated in missionary furniture, lament the murderous monotony of their life"

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© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Studies for "Now beginneth the playful and tragic romance in four fits of the ten fatigued pirates, who, seated in missionary furniture, lament the murderous monotony of their life"
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Studies for "Now beginneth the playful and tragic romance in four fits of the ten fatigued pirates, who, seated in missionary furniture, lament the murderous monotony of their life"

Date1908
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration Citation"Mehitabel: Being the Startling Piratical Adventures of a Virtuous New England Schoolmistress in the Hands of Unlettered and Ferocious Freebooters," by Ralph Bergengren, in Collier's, November 21, 1908.
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionssheet: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-126a
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
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