The tongs, however, becoming interlocked in some way, he suddenly threw them violently across the room...
Date1897
Artist
Arthur Ignatius Keller
(American painter and illustrator, 1866–1924)
Illustration CitationThe Rock of the Lion, by Molly Seawell (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1898)
MediumGouache on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 17 15/16 × 13 1/2 in. (45.6 × 34.3 cm)
sheet: 21 7/8 × 16 3/4 in. (55.6 × 42.5 cm)
sheet: 21 7/8 × 16 3/4 in. (55.6 × 42.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Louis Porreca, 1986
Object number1986-142
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this novel about The Siege of Gibraltar during the American Revolution, a difference about national loyalties causes an English lord to fling fire-tongs to the floor.Determined to become a painter after his studies at the Munich Art Academy, New York-born Arthur Ignatius Keller soon found his work in demand for the more lucrative field of illustration. By the mid-1890s, his work was appearing regularly in major magazines, along with illustrations by artists such as Howard Pyle.
Arthur Ignatius Keller
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Arthur Ignatius Keller
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