Swann Galleries - Illustration Art - Sale 2372 - January 22, 2015

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252 ● ELMER BOYD SMITH.
Three pen and ink illustrations.“Paul Revere, Spreading the Alarm” * “Panama Canal” *
“Cod Fishing.” Pen and ink on paper.Average size 101x204 mm; 4x8 inches, image.Three
drawings fromThe Story of Our Country, NewYork: Putnam, 1920. Matted, with simple
wood frames. [500/750]
251 ● FLORENCE SCOVELL
SHINN.
Mrs.Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.“‘Lemme
hold the muff ’ criedAustralia.‘No,me-me!’
shrieked Europena.”Pen-and-ink with color
wash drawing on paper. 245x195 mm;
93/4x73/4 inches. Signed at bottom. Matted,
laid over cardboard with Robert Schoelker
Gallery label on verso. Np, c. 1901.
[3,000/4,000]
Original illustration for the first illustrated
edition (1903) of Alice Caldwell Hegan’s Mrs.
Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. The drawing
illustrates the episode which appears on p. 102
of the text of the unillustrated first edition (see
below). Florence Scovel Shinn was married to
the American painter Everett Shinn, and was a
successful illustrator in her own right.With a
copy of the book (NewYork: Century, 1901).
Original pictorial green cloth gilt. First Edition.
Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 114.
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