"The Fall of the Spider Man": Canadian Fairy Tales

ca. 1922

Not on view

This drawing was made to illustrate "The Fall of the Spider Man," a story in Canadian Fairy Tales, which was based on the folk tales of native Americans and published by the Canadian politician and writer Cyrus Macmillan in 1922. Here, the Spider Man has "said farewell to the Sky Country and let himself down to Earth by one of his own strands of yarn."

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Title: "The Fall of the Spider Man": Canadian Fairy Tales
Artist: Marcia Lane Jarret Foster (British, 1897–active 1968)
Author: Cyrus Macmillan (Canadian, Prince Edward Island 1882–1953)
Date: ca. 1922
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and wash, touches of white gouache (bodycolor)
Dimensions: sheet: 5 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. (13.7 x 11.4 cm)
sheet: 15 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. (38.4 x 27.6 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
Object Number: 67.806.7
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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