Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 6

Jessie Willcox Smith
“Evangeline: Tale of Acadia”

1897

$65,000
£49,857.80
€58,288.71
CA$93,592.13
A$94,973.56
CHF 54,287.63
MX$1,157,478.59
NOK 641,031.16
SEK 644,675.34
DKK 435,718.96

About the Item

Signed with initials lower right The painting is one of the 4 illustrations that JWS did for the book “Evangeline: Tale of Acadia”, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Houghton Mifflin) in 1897 and can be found on facing p. 60. JWS was commissioned to do this illustration while she was still a student of Howard Pyle
  • Creator:
    Jessie Willcox Smith (1863 - 1935, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1897
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Fort Washington, PA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 43411stDibs: LU384313150192

More From This Seller

View All
Alcott's Old Fashioned Girl

Alcott's Old Fashioned Girl

By Jessie Willcox Smith

Located in Fort Washington, PA

"'I choose this,' said Polly, holding up a long white kid glove, shrunken and yellow with time, but looking as if it had a history." Illustration for An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa...

Category

20th Century Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Charcoal

The Little Land

The Little Land

By Jessie Willcox Smith

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Medium: Gouache and Mixed Media on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Illustration from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic poetry volume, 'A Chil...

Category

Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Gouache, Board

Pease-Porridge Hot, Pease-Porridge Cold

Pease-Porridge Hot, Pease-Porridge Cold

By Jessie Willcox Smith

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Signature: Signed Lower Right This mixed media art by Jesssie Willcox Smith, entitled “Pease-Porridge Hot, Pease-Porridge Cold,” was executed in 19...

Category

1910s Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Board

Dream Blocks

Dream Blocks

By Jessie Willcox Smith

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Medium: Mixed Media on Board Signature: Unsigned Sight Size 28.00" x 19.75", Framed 39.00" x 30.75" Little kid looking out the window. Exhibitions: Allentown Art Museum, At the Edge: Art of the Fantastic (June 3- September 9, 2013) Literature: Aileen C. Higgins, Dream Blocks, New York, 1908, illustrated in color as frontispieceMichael S. Schnessel, Jessie Willcox Smith, Toronto, Canada, 1977, pp. 45, 94Edward D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: A Bibliography, Gretna, Louisiana, 1989, A. 26, illustrated in color p. 50 Edward D. Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith: American Illustrator, Gretna, Louisiana, 1990, pp. 34, 48Alice A. Carter, The Red Rose Girls...

Category

Early 1900s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

The Playful Child

The Playful Child

By Jessie Willcox Smith

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original cover for Good Housekeeping magazine, published March 1931

Category

1930s Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

May I Have the Pleasure, Good Housekeeping Cover

May I Have the Pleasure, Good Housekeeping Cover

By Jessie Willcox Smith

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Signed Lower Right by Artist Titled on the reverse: May I Have the Pleasure Good Housekeeping cover, November 1926 As Jessie Willcox Smith biographer S. Michael Schnessel has a...

Category

1920s Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil

You May Also Like

"Mother and Chid Reading", Close Variant of Jessie Wilcox Smith Ptg, Dreifoos

"Mother and Chid Reading", Close Variant of Jessie Wilcox Smith Ptg, Dreifoos

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This quiet and lovely depiction of a mother and child reading an alphabet book is charming for good reason -- it is a close variant of a well-known circa 1905 painting entitled "The ...

Category

Vintage 1910s American Belle Époque Paintings

Materials

Paint

From Folklore to Disney: Tenggren’s 1919 Scene with Boy and Ceremonial Horn

From Folklore to Disney: Tenggren’s 1919 Scene with Boy and Ceremonial Horn

By Gustaf Tenggren

Located in Stockholm, SE

Gustaf Tenggren (1896-1970) The Horn (1919) signed Tenggren. Ink, watercolor and gouache on cardboard unframed 29.5 x 30 cm (11 ⅝ x 11 ¾ in) framed 41.5 x 42 cm (16 ⅜ x 16 ½ in) h...

Category

1910s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

Study of Ruth

Study of Ruth

By Lilian Westcott Hale

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

Study of Ruth, c. 1925 Charcoal and sepia ink on paper 22 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches (56.5 x 70.5 cm) Signed upper center: Lillian Westcott Hale Lilian Westcott Hale...

Category

1920s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Ink

Medicine (Sepia) Lithograph Print, American Impressionist, Signed AP Edition

Medicine (Sepia) Lithograph Print, American Impressionist, Signed AP Edition

By Norman Rockwell

Located in Aventura, FL

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From Tom Sawyer Portfolio. Sheet size 25.5 x 19.5 inches. Image size approx 17 x 13 inches. Frame size approx 28 x 24 inches. AP edition. ...

Category

1970s American Impressionist Portrait Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Large Antique Maxfield Parrish Print “Cleopatra” c1920

Large Antique Maxfield Parrish Print “Cleopatra” c1920

Located in Big Flats, NY

Large Antique Maxfield Parrish Print “Cleopatra”, Framed and Matted, C1920 Measures - 31 1/2" x 35 1/8" x 1 3/4"

Category

Early 20th Century Prints

Materials

Paper