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| 1131 |
| Gulliver ‘s Travels – Big Head and Little Figure |
| FES Title: | Big head & little fig. | |
| Alternate Titles: | Gulliver’s Travels, Kidnapped, Arabian Nights (1925); Gulliver-Treasure Island |
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| Date: | 06/03/1922 | |
| Size: | 14.75″H x 7.5″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels, illustrated with Louis Rhead. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921: dust jacket. no caption ______. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, c. 1921: spine. |
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| Inscription: | lr: Frank E. Schoonover | |
| Annotations: | ||
| Exhibitions: | 1925 WSFA Spring; 1925 Washington; 1930 WSFA Apt; 1931 FES | |
| Comments: | spot for spine; TP 10/24/02; form 10/25/02; index; edit 11/06 | |
| Commentary: | Schoonover painted the original images for three spine decorations, #’s 1131 – 33, on a single board. They were exhibited as one piece. Subsequently, #1132 was cut off the board and the other two were kept as one piece and sold. For further commentary, see #1111. | |
| Provenance: | Sold by the artist to private collection |
