FELIX OCTAVIUS CARR DARLEY An Attack on a Wagon Train.
FELIX OCTAVIUS CARR DARLEY
An Attack on a Wagon Train.
Brush and ink and wash with pencil on cream wove paper. 470x675 mm; 18½x26 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.
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FELIX OCTAVIUS CARR DARLEY
An Attack on a Wagon Train.
Brush and ink and wash with pencil on cream wove paper. 470x675 mm; 18½x26 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.