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He Put the Glass to his Lips and Drank at One Gulp

Howard Pyle1895/1895

Delaware Art Museum

Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, DE, United States

Pyle depicts the violent transformation of the evil Edward Hyde back into the kindly Dr. Henry Jekyll: “He put the glass to his lips, and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth; and as I looked there came, I thought, a change—he seemed to swell—his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter...”

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  • Title: He Put the Glass to his Lips and Drank at One Gulp
  • Creator Lifespan: 1853/1911
  • Creator Nationality: American
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Creator Death Place: Florence, Italy
  • Creator Birth Place: Wilmington, DE
  • Date: 1895/1895
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings: H. Pyle (LRC)
  • Physical Dimensions: w11 x h15.625 in (Complete)
  • Illustrator: Howard Pyle
  • Illustration Citation: Frontispiece for The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson, volume 7, by Robert Louis Stevenson (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,1895)
  • Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 1915
  • Provenance: Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.
  • Type: Drawings
  • 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$0040:7456
  • Medium: Black-and-white oil on illustration board
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