Jan 17, 2002 - Sale 1922

Sale 1922 - Lot 417

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
SIGNED(WYETH, N. C.--SIGNATURE.) Signed plate from Black Arrow. Color plate titled "And putting their mouths to the level of a starry pool, they drank their fill." 225x177 mm, mounted to card stock, some soiling along lower margin, some toning and rubbing along edges, thin crease affecting half of image down through bottom margin, signed by wyeth<>, in ink, lower right. An inked note in the bottom margin reads "Presented to S. G. Katz by the illustrator's brother `Stim'" [Stimson Wyeth] and dated April 29, 1918. Np: published by Scribner's, nd

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The Black Arrow was published in 1916, two years before this inscription. This well-known image from Stevenson's classic displays one of Wyeth's favorite visual themes--seeing one's own reflection in a pool of water. See Michaelis p. 87.<