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Here endeth the memorable and extraordinarily remarkable four-part narrative of Mehitabel and her desperate scholars
John Sloan1908/1908
Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, DE, United States
For this humorous pirate tale, Sloan drew the illustrations in a style evocative of woodcuts. The approach proved popular with the magazine and the author, and Sloan was commissioned to illustrate additional stories by Bergengren that appeared in Collier's over the next three years.
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- Title: Here endeth the memorable and extraordinarily remarkable four-part narrative of Mehitabel and her desperate scholars
- Creator Lifespan: 1871/1951
- Creator Nationality: American
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Hanover, NH
- Creator Birth Place: Lock Haven, PA
- Date: 1908/1908
- Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings: John Sloan (LRC in gouache)
- Physical Dimensions: w22.0625 x h12.75 in (Complete)
- Painter, etcher, and illustrator: John Sloan
- Illustration Citation: Mehitabel: Being the Startling Piratical Adventures of a Virtuous New England Schoolmistress in the Hands of Unlettered and Ferocious Freebooters, by Ralph Bergengren, in Collier's, November 21, 1908
- Credit Line: Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
- Provenance: © Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
- Type: Drawings
- Rights: © Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.
- External Link: http://emuseum.delart.org:8080/emuseum/
- Medium: Ink, gouache, and graphite on illustration board
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