Sep 17, 2020 - Sale 2542

Sale 2542 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
FELIX OCTAVIUS CARR DARLEY
An Attack on a Wagon Train.

Brush and ink and wash with pencil on cream wove paper. 470x675 mm; 18 1/2x26 3/4 inches. Signed and inscribed "fecit" in ink, lower right recto.

Ex-collection private collection, New York.

Darley (1822-1888) was among the most prominent American illustrators of the 19th century, celebrated for his work for some of the best-known authors of the day, including James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edgar Allan Poe.