Washington Reviewing the Troops
Date1881
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration CitationYankee Doodle: an Old Friend in a New Dress, by Howard Pyle (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1881)
MediumWatercolor, ink, and graphite on paper
Dimensionssheet: 9 × 8 1/8 in. (22.9 × 20.6 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Joseph Bancroft, 1942
Object number1942-21
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn 1881, Dodd, Mead and Company commissioned Pyle to illustrate the song Yankee Doodle in book form. His watercolors were among the earliest American experiments in color-printed children's books.