Featured on PDR in the essay Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance: Dan Carter Beard’s Foray into Fiction
An esoteric disease which reveals things in their true light; three pairs of disembodied feet galavanting about the countryside - Abigail Walthausen explores the brief but strange literary career of Daniel Carter Beard, illustrator for Mark Twain and a founding father of the Boy Scouts of America.
Also appearing in the essay…
Other works by the artist in the archive…
“There Were Two Feet, as I Could Plainly See, Side by Side.”
Artist
Date
1889
From
Six Feet of Romance
Image Size
754 x 800
