Above: 1906 edition of book illustration is on page 99

A wonderful detailed original drawing by Harrison Fisher illustrating Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, found on page 99 of Bobbs Merrill’s 1906 book, The Song of Hiawatha, an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

This charcoal and pencil drawing depicts the Indian Chief storyteller specifically. Framed in a fumed oak arts and crafts aesthetic, wide quarter sawn frame, double matted and ready to hang in your home, office, art gallery or museum. The bookplate from the Hardcover book is included in the sale.

Fisher was a very prolific and wildly popular turn of the century Illustrator and the creator of the The Fisher Girl, a precursor to American Pin-Up.

Above: Detail of bookplate

Above: Bookplate with text