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Pyle, Howard,
Literature -- Harper's Monthly Magazine
Literature -- Pyle
Illustration
Painting
Extorting Tribute from the Citizens, (painting).
Artist:
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911, painter.
Title:
Extorting Tribute from the Citizens, (painting).
Other Titles:
Sack of Carthagena, (painting).
Dates:
1905.
Medium:
Oil.
Dimensions:
29 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.
Description:
Illustration depicting a swashbuckling figure holding a sword, his gaze fixed on a subject kneeling before him, as the townspeople watch.
Subject:
Literature -- Harper's Monthly Magazine
Literature -- Pyle -- Fate of a Treasure Town
Object Type:
Illustration
Painting
Owner:
Delaware Art Museum, 2301 Kentmere Parkway, Wilmington, Delaware 19806 Accession Number: 985
Provenance:
Acquired 1912.
Remarks:
Illustration from The Fate of a Treasure Town by Howard Pyle published in Harper's Monthly Magaine, Dec. 1905.
References:
"American Illustration: The Collection of the Delaware Art Museum," Wilmington, DE: Delaware Art Museum, 1991, pg. 56.
"Howard Pyle: Works in the Collection of the Delaware Art Museum," Wilmington, DE: Delaware Art Museum, 1971, pg. 21.
Elzea, Rowland P., "Nostalgic Journey: American Illustration from the Collection of the Delaware Art Museum," Wilmington, DE: Delaware Art Museum, 1994.
"A Century of American Illustration," Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 1972, pg. 8.
Illustration:
Elzea, Rowland P., "Nostalgic Journey: American Illustration from the Collection of the Delaware Art Museum," Wilmington, DE: Delaware Art Museum, 1994, fig. 10.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP 08080450
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Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum
Control Number
Inventory of American Paintings
08080450
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