Search 
 Search Images 
 About 
   
KeywordBrowseCombinedHighlightsSearch HistoryAll Catalogs
More Smithsonian Searches
 
 Who else has...
 
  •  
  • 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
    Add to my list 
    Copy/Holding information
    Smithsonian AmericanArt MuseumControl Number 
    Inventory of American Paintings08080450Add Copy to MyList

    Format:HTMLPlain textDelimited
    Subject: 
    Email to:


    Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9382
     Powered by SirsiDynix
    About | © 2020 Smithsonian | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact
    SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System