Illustration for Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Worth Brehm

$7,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Signed

Charcoal on artist's board, signed lower left . 1 vols. 23 x 17-3/4 in. Matted and framed. Fine. Literature: Clemens, Huckleberry Finn Harper & Bros., 1923 . Item #12462 A poignant and surperbly drawn depiction of the scene when Huck, out hunting on Jackson's Island, meets the runaway slave, Jim.Huck stands at the left of the drawing, while Jim, at the foot of a large tree, kneels in supplication. The drama of the moment is

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