(Rip Van Winkle, illustration) Rip with Junto at the Village inn
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Library of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Accession Number
1976.149.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the cozy confines of a 19th-century village tavern, Octavius Carr Dar 1848 print *Rip with Junto at the Village* captures a pivotal scene from Washington Irving's beloved tale *Rip Van Winkle featured in *The Sketch Book of Geoffreyon, Gent.* (1819–1820). Here, the idle dreamer Rip lounges with his merry band of cronies, the Junto, amid pipes, ale, and lively conversation—evoking the lazy, pre-Revolutionary idyll that defines Irving's satire on colonial life. Darley, a master illustrator of American literature, brings Irving's words to vivid life through intricate line work typical of the e...