SHINN, Florence Scovil (1869-1940).  "'Lemme hold the muff' cried Australia. 'No, me-me!' shrieked Europena."  Original illustration for the first illustrated edition of Alice Caldwell Hegan's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Pen-and-ink with color wash drawing on paper, signed at bottom. Image size: 9½ x 7¾ inches.  Glazed and framed (unexamined out of frame).
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SHINN, Florence Scovil (1869-1940). "'Lemme hold the muff' cried Australia. 'No, me-me!' shrieked Europena." Original illustration for the first illustrated edition of Alice Caldwell Hegan's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Pen-and-ink with color wash drawing on paper, signed at bottom. Image size: 9½ x 7¾ inches. Glazed and framed (unexamined out of frame).

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SHINN, Florence Scovil (1869-1940). "'Lemme hold the muff' cried Australia. 'No, me-me!' shrieked Europena." Original illustration for the first illustrated edition of Alice Caldwell Hegan's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Pen-and-ink with color wash drawing on paper, signed at bottom. Image size: 9½ x 7¾ inches. Glazed and framed (unexamined out of frame).

The illustration for the first illustrated edition (1903) of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. The drawing illustrates the episode which appears on p. 102 of the text of the unillustrated first edition (see below). Florence Scovel Shinn was married to the American painter Everett Shinn, and was a successful illustrator in her own right.

[With:] HEGAN, Alice Caldwell. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. New York: Century, 1901. 8o. Original pictorial green cloth, gilt; quarter morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION. Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 114. (2)