This giant was sobbing garbled fragments of a song about a heart bowed down by weight of woe, and beating time with a bottle
Date1935
Artist
Anton Otto Fischer
(German painter, 1882–1962, active in the United States)
Illustration Citation"Three Lovesick Swains of Gibraltar," by Guy Gilpatrick, in The Saturday Evening Post, April 27, 1935
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions17 5/8 x 35 1/2 in. (44.8 x 90.2 cm)
frame: 20 3/4 × 38 1/2 in. (52.7 × 97.8 cm)
frame: 20 3/4 × 38 1/2 in. (52.7 × 97.8 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1986
Object number1986-87
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThe caption refers jokingly to the drunken Scotsman in the foreground, who is about to greet his cousin, the captain of the large steamer in Gibraltar harbor.Having spent some years as a merchant seaman before studying illustration, Fischer was able to bring first hand knowledge to the nautical subjects which became his specialty. He illustrated stories about such seafaring characters as Tugboat Annie.
