Robert Wildhack cover illustration for Collier's Weekly (1910): a beautifully framed antique Clara Elsene Peck Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle was first published in 1819

and The Book of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur (1910)

the master artist/storyteller excerpted and expanded tales of King Arthur and the Knights of his Roundtable that Sir Thomas Malory had collected during the 15th century and William Caxton had published in 1485

Image Size: H 7

By the time it was ready to publish

Robert Wildhack cover illustration for Collier's Weekly (1910): a beautifully framed antique Clara Elsene Peck Washington Irving’s Rip Van WinkleCover: Collier's The National Weekly Image Name: Country Lanes Robert Wildhack May 9, 1910 Issue Vol. xlv, No. 11 IMAGE INFORMATION Image Size: H 15. 00 x W 11. 00 Matted & Framed: H 22. 00 x W 18. 00 Framed Price: $290. 00 Packaging and shipping approximately $25. 00 RJW was born in Illinois, but grew up in Indiana. He moved to New York in 1901 where he spent a year studying art with Robert Henri at the Chase School of Art. His classmates there