An Idyl of the King
Date1886
Artist
George Foster Barnes
(American illustrator, 1869–1914)
Illustration Citation"An Idyl of the King," by Ernest Whitney, in St. Nicholas, January 1887
MediumInk on Bristol board
Dimensionssheet: 18 × 13 1/4 in. (45.7 × 33.7 cm)
mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-128
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextGeorge Foster Barnes created this ornate illustration for a poem about the creatures and places - frightening and wondrous - that populate a child's imagination. The speaker is a little boy who battles obstacles and ogres to rescue the princess in the upper right.
