Drawing

Object/Artifact

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Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Drawing

Entry/Object ID

SS.80.11

Description

Mock-up for layout of page for Rip Van Winkle book on heavy cardstock, includes text and three illustrations: at top, a cow in the cabbage patch eating, a man in background approaches with stick in hand to chase the cow; he stands before a cottage; trees grow to the right of the garden; middle sketch consists of little boy with shirt and pants patched at the knees sitting in the crotch of an apple tree holding and eating apples and little barefoot girl in a smock reaches up to boy; in the third illustration, lower right hand corner, a boy dressed in clothes too big for him watches a woman in sunbonnet hoe corn; the text is sketched in and reads as follows: "but as to doing family duty and keeping his farm in order, he found/it impossible. In fact, he declared it was of no use ot work on his/farm; it was the most pestilent piece of ground in the whole/country, everything about it went wrong and would go wrong in spite of him./ "His fences were continually falling to pieces; his cow would either go astray,/or get among the cabbages;" weeds were sure to grow/quickly in his fields than anywhere else; the rain always made/a point of setting in just as he had some outdoor work to do,/ so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindle (sic) away un-/der his management, acre by acre, until there was little more/ lef (sic) than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it/was the worst conditioned farm in the neighborhood./His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they/belonged to nobody./His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness,/promised to inherit the habits, with the old clothes of his/father. His was generally trooping like a colt at/his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-/off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up/with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather./Rip Van Winkle, however, was/one of those happy mortals, of foolish well oil-/ed disposition who take the world easy, eat/white bread or brown/; whichever can be got."; the first sketch is signed "Victor Perard" in the lower right corner; the third in lower left.

Collection

Sunnyside Object Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Victor Semon Perard

Attribution

Artist

Date made

1933

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Transcription

See description

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

SP 2268

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

19-15/16 in

Width

14-1/4 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 19 15/16 x 14 1/4 in. (50.6 x 36.2 cm)

Material

Paper, ink, Pencil

Condition

Notes

Remarks: Details of condition: Lower right corner broken off.

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

SS.80.5 - Book, Mock-up - Part of set SS.80.6 - Drawing - Part of set SS.80.7 - Drawing - Part of set SS.80.8 - Drawing - Part of set SS.80.9 - Drawing - Part of set SS.80.10 - Drawing - Part of set

General Notes

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Union Church, Storage, Shelf 13E

Note Type

Department

Note

Curatorial