Five red coated soldiers on horseback, with another cloaked to the eyes...clustering about these, a motley score of poor people, young and old
Date1889
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"In the Valley," by Harold Frederic, in Scribner's Magazine, September 1889
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionssheet: 10 7/8 × 16 in. (27.6 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1915
Object number1915-4
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThis historical novel centers on characters living in the Mohawk Valley in the late 18th century when the area - home to the Iroquois Confederacy - was contested by colonial English and French political factions. Howard Pyle created 20 illustrations for the series. 
