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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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.

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.
MediumInk, gouache, and graphite on Bristol board
Dimensionssheet: 12 1/8 × 23 in. (30.8 × 58.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-548
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
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