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| 1864 |
| He Was a Good Wrestler as He Was a Good Swordsman |
| FES Title: | Chap. 14. Page – 131. He was a good wrestler as he was a good swordsman – but presently I threw him. | |
| Alternate Titles: | He Was a Good Wrestler |
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| Date: | 07/1931 | |
| Size: | 32.25″H x 24.25″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | Illustration | |
| Published: | Johnston, Mary. To Have and To Hold. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931: facing 108. caption: He was a good wrestler as he was a good swordsman Brandywine River Museum. Catalogue of the Collection 1969-89. Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine Conservancy, 1991: 173. [not pictured] |
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| Inscription: | ll: F.E. Schoonover / ’31 | |
| Annotations: | en verso: To Have / and To Hold 1864 en verso typed on label attached to original stretcher: “Drawn for / No. 1864 / “Too Have And To Hold” / From Chap. 14 page 108 / He was as good wrestler as he was a good swordsman, but with the bitter anger in my heart and a vision of the haunted wood before my eyes, I think I could have wrestled with Hercules and won.” en verso: “Property of Houghton Mifflin” |
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| Exhibitions: | 1979 Artists of the Brandywine | |
| Comments: | Auction of [FES] Estate 1971 New Century Club #74.5, Trany 10/13/04; index; edit |
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| Provenance: | Auction of artist’s Estate, New Century Club, Wilmington, Delaware [1971]; S. Martha DeBartolomeis, Wilmington, Delaware [1971]; Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Gift of the Estate of S. Martha DeBartolomeis [1974] | |
