Here endeth the memorable and extraordinarily remarkable four-part narrative of Mehitabel and her desperate scholars

© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publica…
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Here endeth the memorable and extraordinarily remarkable four-part narrative of Mehitabel and her desperate scholars
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Here endeth the memorable and extraordinarily remarkable four-part narrative of Mehitabel and her desperate scholars

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 illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 12 3/4 × 22 1/16 in. (32.4 × 56 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-41
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextFor this humorous pirate tale, Sloan drew the illustrations in a style evocative of woodcuts. The approach proved popular with the magazine and the author, and Sloan was commissioned to illustrate additional stories by Bergengren that appeared in Collier's over the next three years.
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