1

Property of a Gentleman FELIX OCTAVIUS CARR DARLEY (1822-1888) The Oak Openings signed

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD
Property of a Gentleman FELIX OCTAVIUS CARR DARLEY (1822-1888) The Oak Openings signed
Property of a Gentleman
FELIX OCTAVIUS CARR DARLEY
(1822-1888)
The Oak Openings
signed "F.O.C. Darley fecit"
with inscription of a passage from "The Oak Openings" in pencil below the mat (lower left)
brush and ink wash over pencil on paper
18 1/4 x 14 1/2 in. (47 x 36.8 cm) (sheet size), in a painted oval <p> Estimate: $4,000-6,000 <p> According to Elliot Bostwick Davis, "W.A. Townsend and Company of New York City commissioned [Darley] to produce illustrations for James Fenimore Cooper's complete works, which were published between 1859 and 1861."1 This drawing became the subject of one of the 184 engravings for "The Cooper Vignettes." <p> Notes 1 Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat, "Art in the Empire City," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, pp. 222-223.