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Extorting Tribute from the Citizens
Howard Pyle1905/1905
Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, DE, United States
When Pyle's illustrations for “The Fate of a Treasure Town” appeared in 1905, they were - according to one early Pyle biographer - "the sensation of the magazine world... marvelously rich in color...dramatically stirring, and vividly romantic." The story's subject is the fall of the wealthy Colombian city of Cartagena to pirates and the seizure of its citizens' property.
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- Title: Extorting Tribute from the Citizens
- Creator Lifespan: 1853/1911
- Creator Nationality: American
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Florence, Italy
- Creator Birth Place: Wilmington, DE
- Date: 1905/1905
- Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings: Pyle (LRC)
- Physical Dimensions: w19.5 x h29.5 in (Complete)
- Illustrator: Howard Pyle
- Illustration Citation: The Fate of a Treasure Town, by Howard Pyle, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, December 1905
- Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 1912
- Provenance: Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.
- Type: Paintings
- Rights: Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.
- External Link: http://emuseum.delart.org:8080/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:10536
- Medium: Oil on canvas
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