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Uncle Sam
Howard Pyle1879/1879
Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, DE, United States
Howard Pyle depicts Samuel Nimmy, a retired driver on the Old National Pike, or Cumberland Road, begun in 1811, which ran from Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling, West Virginia:
His recollections are vivid and detailed in point...although he is eighty-six years old...he lives in a comfortable cottage at Hagerstown (Maryland)...the centre table is loaded with books, principally on Negro emancipation and the events of the Civil War.
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Details
- Title: Uncle Sam
- Creator Lifespan: 1853/1911
- Creator Nationality: American
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Florence, Italy
- Creator Birth Place: Wilmington, DE
- Date: 1879/1879
- Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings: Pyle (LRC in pencil)
- Physical Dimensions: w9 x h11.9375 in (Complete)
- Illustrator: Howard Pyle
- Illustration Citation: The Old National Pike, by W.H. Rideing, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, November 1879
- Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 1919
- 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$0040:7785
- Medium: Graphite, charcoal, and gouache on paper
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