Headpiece / Elena's Captive
Date1899
Artist
Bernard Jacob Rosenmeyer
(American lithographer, illustrator, and painter, born 1870)
Illustration Citation"Elena's Captive," by Caroline Dale Parke, in St. Nicholas, February 1900
MediumInk, gouache, and graphite on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 16 15/16 × 26 in. (43 × 66 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 1984
Object number1984-46
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextCaroline Dale Parke wrote young people’s books, many of them set in historical backgrounds. For this scene of the arrival of Queen Isabella, Bernard Rosenmeyer's waving flags reflect the author's description of Isabella approaching “the long line of standards (that) saluted her in a gorgeous undulation." Rosenmeyer's sharply foreshortened horse at left - outside the frame of the main action - sweeps the reader into the scene.
