The gigantic monster dragged the hacked and headless corpse of his victim up the staircase
Date1896
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"No Haid Pawn," In Ole Virginia, by Thomas Nelson Page with illustrations by W.T. Smedley, B.W. Clinedinst, C.S. Reinhart, A.B. Frost, Howard Pyle and A. Castaigne (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions16 × 11 3/4 in. (40.6 × 29.8 cm)
frame: 18 1/2 × 14 1/4 in. (47 × 36.2 cm)
frame: 18 1/2 × 14 1/4 in. (47 × 36.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1915
Object number1915-64
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextIn this tale about the antebellum South, the narrator recalls a horrific murder that occurred in a plantation house near "no haid pawn," or no-head-pond.
