I Surrender If You Promise To Protect This Young Lady
Date1887
Artist
Edward Windsor Kemble
(American illustrator and author, 1861–1933)
Illustration Citation"How the Yankees Came to Blackwood," by Louise Herrick, in St. Nicholas, January 1888
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 11 7/8 × 12 1/2 in. (30.2 × 31.8 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-298
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextLouise Herrick narrates an autobiographical story about her childhood experiences in Virginia during the Civil War. Edward Kemble illustrates an episode when a Confederate townsman prevents her from being swept away in the chaos when Union forces commandeer the area.
