Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Selenites Fishing

Verso:

Claude Allin Shepperson
1867-1921

Selenites Fishing

1901.
7 1/8 x 5 11/16 inches (180 x 145 mm)
Pen and black ink with wash, touched with white, on illustration board.
1986.2228

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Drawing initialed "S" at lower left.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Drawing for an illustration for H.G. Wells' "The first men in the moon", first published in The strand, v. xxii (July-Dec., 1901), p. 20.
Inscriptions/Markings
Printed label on verso recording the name of the author, title of the work for which the illustration was created, title of the periodical in which it appeared with volume and page number, and price paid for the design; partially obscured beneath in pencil: The first men in the moon / The fish in the net came up like a blue moonrise ...
Classification
Century Drawings