1969
Martin, With a Trembling Hand, Wrote His Name
FES Title: Page. 31 = Chapter-3. Martin with a trembling hand wrote his name at the bottom of the page. “Now,” said the quartermaster, smiling slightly: “Ye’re a pirate!”
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Date: 07/1933
Size: 30″H x 21″W
Medium: oil-on-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Carter, Russell Gordon. The Crimson Cutlass. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co., 1933: facing 62.
caption: With a trembling hand he wrote his name
Inscription: ll: Frank E. Schoonover / ’33
Annotations: en verso on label on frame: Pa / The Crimson Cutlass No 1969 / Martin with a trembling hand / wrote his name at the / bottom of the page ” “Now,” / said the Quartermaster-smiling / slightly. “Y’er a pirate”

en verso label printed in Schoonover’s hand: Frank E. Schoonover

[signature] / 6/.9/.47 / Frank E. Schoonover / No 1969 Printed for “the Crimson Cutlass” / “Now” said the Quartermaster – smiling slightly, “Ye’re a pirate.”
Exhibitions: 2006 Cornell
Comments: digital image and permission from Cornell 2001; LSS in person 8/03; index; edit
#60.004
Commentary:
Provenance: Sold by the artist to Samuel B. Bird; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Gift of Samuel B. Bird [1960]