"Why don't you show him?"
Date1877
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"Papa Hoorn's Tulip," by R. V. C. Meyers, in Scribner's Monthly, January 1877
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 4 15/16 × 7 in. (12.5 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Willard S. Morse, 1923
Object number1923-95
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextPapa Hoorn's Tulip is a story with several silly plots involving a rare tulip. Pyle's silhouettes, which are drawn in ink rather than cut from paper, complement a tale suitable for both children and adults.
Thomas Starling Sullivant
1910
