A Sailor's Sweetheart
Date1895
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"By Land and Sea," by Howard Pyle, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1895.
MediumOil on illustration board
Dimensions17 7/8 × 9 7/8 in. (45.4 × 25.1 cm)
frame: 22 1/8 × 17 1/8 in. (56.2 × 43.5 cm)
frame: 22 1/8 × 17 1/8 in. (56.2 × 43.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1912
Object number1912-8
On View
On viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextIn this story of New England, Polly Ann marries the sailor on her right, to the desolation of the wood-carver on her left. Time passes, and the ship bearing Polly Ann's figurehead and name is wrecked. An old man remarks while passing the derelict ship, "She was an unlucky craft, they do say," unwittingly commenting on the tragedies of life in a sea-faring village.
