The Royal party halted at the foot of the street

The Royal party halted at the foot of the street
The Royal party halted at the foot of the street

The Royal party halted at the foot of the street

Date1917
Artist (American artist and illustrator, 1877–1960)
Illustration Citation"Long Live the King," by Mary Roberts Rinehart, in Everybody's Magazine, August 1917
MediumCrayon and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 14 9/16 × 13 3/16 in. (37 × 33.5 cm)
sheet: 18 11/16 × 14 15/16 in. (47.5 × 37.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of the estate of Frieda Becher, 1971
Object number1971-81
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextMary Robert Rinehart's novel draws a sympathetic portrait of young Otto, prince of a European kingdom. When his grandfather the king is ill, Otto must join a ten-mile pilgrimage to a church to pray for his cure. Here, with the archbishop and other dignitaries, he walks "in a sort of rapt solemnity."

Before he studied with Howard Pyle, Arthur Becher worked as a draftsman in a lithography studio in his native Milwaukee, an experience that may account for his exrraordinary facility with drawing media.
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