The Sailor's Wedding
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
Dimensions14 5/8 × 9 7/8 in. (37.1 × 25.1 cm)
frame: 22 × 17 1/8 in. (55.9 × 43.5 cm)
frame: 22 × 17 1/8 in. (55.9 × 43.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1912
Object number1912-11
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThis painting is one of four paintings that tell the tale of the daughter of a ship owner and namesake of his ship the Polly Ann, the sailor whom she marries (in this scene), and the forlorn wood-carver who has fallen in love with her while carving her figurehead. Time passes and the ship Polly Ann is wrecked. An old man remarks about the derelict ship, "She was an unlucky craft, they do say," unknowingly commenting on the sadness of three lives.
