"Battle Of Concord"
Description
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1822-1888)
Pencil on paper
Size: 5 5/8" X 4 5/8"
An important early American drawing by famed illustrator-artist, Felix Octavius Carr Darley. The drawing is laid to a paper backing and matted with a second window that identifying the subject and artist of the drawing with the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote, "Where once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard around the world". "Battle of Concord, April 19 1776, by F. O. C. Darley", possibly in the artist's own handwriting. The drawing is very nicely, professionally framed and matted and appears to be in very good condition aside from possible toning and a few dots of foxing. Not examined out of the frame.
F. O. C. Darley is considered by many to be Americas first important illustrator and did illustrations for books by most of the important American authors of the time including, Washington Irving, Henry Longfellow, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens. This drawing was potentially done to illustrate an edition of Emersons' "Concord Hymn".
